DVD consumer rights hero comes to U.S.
Jon Lech Johansen, who created a huge furor as a teenager has come to the U.S. for a challenging job offer.
US entertainment interests unsuccessfully tried prosecuting Johansen because of his genius at reliably finding software solutions to allow consumers free use of the copyrighted material that they have paid for – even when crippled by copy protection schemes. Johansen will start working on a secret project for MP3tunes.com which sells MP3 music without any copy protection.
This is great news for music and video consumers helping to enable escape from predatory entertainment companies. Why don't these idiots just give consumers what they want – channels to access individual songs at a reasonable price and the copy ability to bring them anywhere on any format they need to?
Jon Lech Johansen, who created a huge furor as a teenager has come to the U.S. for a challenging job offer.
US entertainment interests unsuccessfully tried prosecuting Johansen because of his genius at reliably finding software solutions to allow consumers free use of the copyrighted material that they have paid for – even when crippled by copy protection schemes. Johansen will start working on a secret project for MP3tunes.com which sells MP3 music without any copy protection.
This is great news for music and video consumers helping to enable escape from predatory entertainment companies. Why don't these idiots just give consumers what they want – channels to access individual songs at a reasonable price and the copy ability to bring them anywhere on any format they need to?
posted by James Roberts at
10/19/2005 09:28:00 PM
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