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DVD Jon seeks compensation
News Jon Lech Johansen, also known as "DVD-Jon", will seek compensation from the Norwegian government following his acquittal in an appellate court on charges related to alleged copyright violation. Jon Johansen of MoRE.had NOTHING to do with the actual...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
DVD Jon modifies Google video viewer
News Jon Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, on Tuesday posted code, which requirs a .Net runtime to work, on his Web site that he said removes that restriction. Johansen gained fame several years ago for releasing software that cracked copy protection on...
[June 30, 2005, 10:30]
Hollywood's war on open source: Linux in the cross hairs
News Most movements have a poster boy, and the DeCSS defendants have found theirs in 16-year-old Jon Johansen. At LinuxWorld 2000 earlier this month, supporters of the defendants passed out bumper stickers that read "Free Jon Johansen" (for the record...
[February 28, 2000, 9:23]
Alleged DeCSS hacker faces two years
News Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teen, goes on trial Monday for allegedly bypassing DVD anti-copying technology. At the prompting of the Norway and US entertainment industries, Norwegian prosecutors indicted Johansen in January for allegedly violating a...
[December 10, 2002, 7:57]
US announces global intellectual-property plan
Talkback And thank young Jon Johansen for having the chops and courage to release software that lets you remove the DRM from your iTunes music. Great, now the rest of the world can enjoy the same freedom-eroding laws that we enjoy here in the U.S.
[September 23, 2005, 23:28]
Norway piracy case brings activists hope
News Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal of Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen in a digital piracy case signals a change in attitudes about copyright in the digital age. The acquittal in Oslo, Norway, of 19-year-old Johansen, one...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
DeCSS programmer turns attention to iTunes
News Late last week, programmer Jon Johansen posted a small program called QTFairUse to his Web site, with little in the way of instruction and even less explanation. Johansen's software isn't for technology novices.
[November 25, 2003, 8:35]
Week in review: Copy-protection drama, scary robots and faster wireless
News Teenage Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen was acquitted by an Oslo court for his role in creating DeCSS, a technology designed to strip copy protections from DVDs. It all sounds a bit dodgy so far, but because Johansen merely used DeCSS to view a...
[January 10, 2003, 16:37]
iTunes DRM-free backdoor reopened
News In a blog posting, Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen, who was previously responsible for releasing software used to copy DVDs, said he had been successful at reverse engineering the latest iTunes encryption.
[March 23, 2005, 9:35]
Torvalds lambastes DVD lawsuits
News One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was brought up on charges of copyright violation and interrogated by police. The suit against Johansen, brought by the Motion Picture Association, is not the first.
[February 2, 2000, 17:04]
US court: Reverse engineering is 'presumptively legal'
News The decision ends the last strand of Hollywood's legal attack on DeCSS in the United States, an effort that began when Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen posted DeCSS on the Internet. A criminal case against Johansen in his home country was thrown...
[March 1, 2004, 10:40]
Free speech victory for DVD crackers
News Allegedly created by a 15-year-old Norwegian programmer named Jon Johansen, the DeCSS software was designed to let DVDs play on computers running the Linux operating system. In this case, the DVD Copyright Control Association, an industry group...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
iTunes DRM hole fixed
News One of the creators was Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for releasing DVD-copying software in 1999. Johansen has been one of the most persistent of those programmers, releasing several tools that have helped others tap into the...
[March 22, 2005, 9:05]
iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed
News Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD-cracking code in late 1999, the programmers say their "PyMusique" software is a "fair" interface for iTunes, primarily aimed at allowing people who use the Linux...
[March 21, 2005, 9:10]
Hackers' DVD call to arms
News One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was charged with copyright violation and interrogated by police. Hollywood's much publicised efforts to clamp down on software that cracks DVD encryption codes, is being met head-on Friday...
[February 3, 2000, 14:39]
A Year Ago: Hackers' DVD call to arms
News One of the programmers, 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, was charged with copyright violation and interrogated by police. The Internet community, civil libertarians and lawyers take on Hollywood over DVD encryption
[February 3, 2001, 5:00]
First (legal) software DVD player for Linux
News Sixteen-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, author of the DeCSS programme -- which breaks the encryption and allows DVDs to play on Linux -- was charged with copyright violation and interrogated by police.
[April 3, 2000, 11:19]
DVD industry's fallback plan: Sue!
News I know very well that they would not win in court, but they could make a big mess out of it," said Jon Johansen, the person that the lawsuit claims was the first to post the DeCSS utility, in a November note posted to his site.
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
Linux expert blasts movie industry over DVD
News Sixteen-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway was charged with copyright violation and interrogated by police. Internationally renowned Linux expert and kernel hacker Alan Cox, has endorsed Linus Torvalds' damning assessment of the current legal...
[February 3, 2000, 15:50]
UK developer quits DVD decrypting
News Norwegian developer Jon Lech Johansen became something of a cause celebre after being aquitted on charges related to alleged copyright violation after he created the DeCSS de-scrambling program. The UK-based developer of DVD Decrypter, one of the...
[June 6, 2005, 18:05]
