Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen and friends launched "doubleTwist" today — a project that removes DRM from music and allows it to be synched to a variety of devices (Jon's the guy who was prosecuted for helping to break the DRM on DVDs). — Read the rest
Jon Lech Johansen, aka "DVD Jon," says,
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I've found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to
AT&TNSA. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work.
Om sez, "DRM-buster DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it's a big piece of fruit. He has reverse-engineered Apple's Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple's devices." — Read the rest
Jon Lech "DVD Jon" Johansen — the Norwegian who helped crack the crypto on DVDs — has now cracked certain elements of the Microsoft video streaming-server. The hack makes it possible to view Windows video streams with software that Microsoft hasn't released or approved. — Read the rest
Boing Boing reader A.V. sez:
— Read the rest'DVD Jon" [Jon Lech Johansen] (known for his work on decrypting DVD security codes) has created a patch for the Google Video Viewer — less than 24 hours after the search giant shipped the video playback plug-in, a tool based on the open-source VideoLAN media player.
Jeremy says,
DVD Jon has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process when purchasing songs from iTunes. One still pays for the tracks, and FairPlay is not included.
Link to download page, and Link to Jon Johansen's blog. — Read the rest
Step aside, Dave Chappelle:
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dvd jon: Is that a Battle Royale DVD?
lil jon: YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
dvd jon: That's the Chinese flick with Go-go from Kill Bill?
lil jon: YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
dj: You can't watch that here.
lj: What?!
dj: You can't watch it.
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has cracked the Apple Lossless encryption used by the Airport Express to communicate with iTunes, so that programmers can write tools that use any application and any operating system to send audio to an Airport Express.
— Read the restI've released JustePort, a tool which lets you stream MPEG4 Apple Lossless files to your AirPort Express.
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has released FairKeys, a program for extracting your iTunes DRM FairPlay keys from Apple's servers.
(Thanks, A.S.!)
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen writes, in reference to VLC's support for iTunes's M4P DRM format:
— Read the restIn case you didn't know, I'm a VideoLAN developer. I reverse engineered
FairPlay and wrote VLC's FairPlay support. It's been available in
VideoLAN CVS since January, but the first release to include FairPlay
support is VLC 0.7.1 (released March 2.).
Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer who cracked DVD encryption, has effectively done the same with iTunes DRM-ed music.
— Read the rest"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email. Johansen cracked iTunes DRM scheme in November by releasing code for a small Windows program that dumps the stream to disk in raw AAC format.
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has a blog — called "So Sue Me." Ahahahaha.
(via Aaron Swartz)
Håkon Wium Lie has many claims to fame — he not only created Cascading Style Sheets, an integral part of the web, but he also was the first person to publish the laws of Norway (which are public domain, but were behind a $1/minute paywall at the time) for free, online. — Read the rest
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen sez, "At Google I/O today we launched doubleTap, an update to the doubleTwist Android app that adds proximity-based sharing for NFC-enabled Android devices such as the Google Nexus S. With doubleTap users can transfer a video or a song simply by tapping two devices together. — Read the rest
Time magazine's Lev Grossman's got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen (BitTorrent), Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen, Justin Frankel (Gnutella) and Shawn Fanning ("Napster"). — Read the rest
I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology. — Read the rest
DVD Jon sez, "Apple's been making an increasing number of anti-consumer moves over the last few years, so we thought it was time to remake their 1984 ad to reflect reality."
The Open Video Conference takes place June 19-20 in New York, and the event promises ample awesomeness.
Speakers include, NYU's Clay Shirky, Harvard's Yochai Benkler, DVD Jon, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, EFF's Corynne McSherry, and many many more. I'll be delivering a keynote on Saturday afternoon. — Read the rest
Dean from the Participatory Culture Foundation sez,
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In less than five weeks, the first ever Open Video Conference is happening in New York City (June 19-20). It will address issues surrounding free speech, innovation, and the future of cultural engagement in video.
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen sez,
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We just went live with the public Windows beta of doubleTwist. The Mac version went out a little more than a month ago and generated headlines like "doubleTwist may be the coolest universal media manager ever"We feel that just like you don't have to use a different browser for every web site you visit (Firefox to read the NY Times, IE to stream Hulu, Chrome to browse YouTube, etc) you shouldn't have to use iTunes for Apple products, Nokia software for Nokia phones, Sony software for Sony products, etc.
