Jon Lech Johansen Quotes

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

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

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

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

I don’t like closed systems.

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.