October 19, 2005

DVD Jon Coming to the USA

The hacker famous for breaking the copy protection on DVDs is coming to the States and moving to San Diego to join up with MP3Tunes.com. The site sells music without DRM and was founded by Michael Robertson of Mp3.com and Lindows fame.

Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance. "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," Johansen told Wired News during a Friday stopover in San Francisco.