Jon Johansen

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#consumers #copyright #holders #limit #over

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#anything #bit #computer #copied #equipment

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#bother #i #intention #service #then

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#basically #community #doomed #engineering #fail

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#consumers #doing #law #legal #prevent

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#chat #had #i #identity #internet

I don't like closed systems. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#i #like #systems

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. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#end #get #hands #i #into

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#being #fed #fed up #i #movie

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. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#bit #code #confusion #encryption #fact