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" All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. "
World
Limit
Over
" Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. "
Bit
Little
Anything
" Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. "
Intention
Then
Bother
" Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. "
Community
Then
Open
" Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. "
Law
Doing
Consumers
" I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat. "
Identity
Chat
Internet
" I don't like closed systems. "
Closed
Systems
Like
" I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part. "
Code
Now
Me
" I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened. "
Work
Apple
Nothing
" I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff. "
End
Because
Hands
" I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life. "
Whole
Bought
CDs
" I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it. "
Being
Movie
Fed Up
" So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available. "
Had
Been
Anything
" We knew that they would probably go after someone. "
Someone
After
Would
" Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest. "
Newspaper
Me
Arrest
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