MP3tunes.com CEO Michael Robertson (best known for previous ventures including Lindows and MP3.com) is being coy about the details, but
he's not too shy to boast about his latest hire: "DVD Jon" Johansen,
the man behind DeCSS and recent
Wall Street Journal cover boy.
According to Robertson, Johansen will be working on a new project that
will "bring digital music into the 21st century." Johansen isn't quite
as bashful: "I have no idea what I'll be doing, but I know it will be
reverse engineering, and I'm sure it will be interesting," he told
Wired News. MP3tunes.com sells DRM-free music files, mostly from
obscure independent artists.
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Subscribe to comments~J~Oct 19th 2005 1:39PM
Well I'm gonna ask....
Who the hell IS this DVD John bloke? What's he do? Is he well known? Should I have heard from him?
This is the 8th website I've visited that has news about this, and sorry, but I've never heard of him!! lol
AFDOct 19th 2005 6:16PM
From what I've read, he broke the CSS copy-protection on commercial DVDs (DeCSS), reverse-engineered Google's video viewer to allow playback of videos from other servers, and wrote PyMusique, an interface for the iTunes music store that allowed for purchase of songs without the DRM copy-protection.