Norwegian DVD Security Hacker Takes on Apple's iTunes

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 25, 2003 - 7:01am.

Oslo -- The Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen, nicknamed "DVD Jon," who broke the encryption code for DVDs when he was 15 years old, has struck again, Norwegian online news daily IT-avisen reported this week. DVD Jon has reportedly now posted software code that can be used to evade the copy-protection technology embedded on songs purchased from Apple's iTunes digital music store, so that the songs may be freely copied. CNET News.com reported that, "if other developers -- or Johansen himself -- pursue the project, it could herald the arrival of simple ripping programs that could create unprotected music files from iTunes songs as simply as from an ordinary compact disc."
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