“DVD-Jon” started a social network on pirated content

The Norwegian self-taught programmer Jon Johansen became famous throughout the world in 2002, when he not only revealed a weak 40-bit protection for DVDs, but dared to openly distribute the program DeCSS, which removes this protection. By this fact, Jon caused a scandal and was arrested at the request of the Americans. However, to the surprise of many, the court could not prove his guilt (it was not without the help of EFF lawyers).

Now “DVD-Yon” decided on another revolution, which in its significance and scale can be no less significant than the removal of protection from DVDs. A year and a half ago, he moved to America at the invitation of the company doubleTwist . Over the course of a year, he and his comrades beat up the DRM protection of iTunes, developed the business concept and secured venture financing for themselves, after which Jon returned to Norway. And today, finally, it became known for the sake of which all this activity was started.

Today, the first open beta version of the doubleTwist platform for free P2P file sharing has been released: music, video, etc. Millions of Facebook users can install the Twist me widget right now ! . The highlight is that the widget works in conjunction with the desktop program, and it automatically removes DRM protection from any files on the user's computer (it automatically scans the entire hard disk), including files from the iTunes store.

Files freed from DRM protection can be run on other iPods, personal computers, as well as on devices of the Sony PSP, Nokia N Series, Sony Ericsson Walkman & Cybershot, LG Viewty and Windows Mobile smartphones.
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The desktop program runs only on Windows, and the MacOS version will appear in about a year. In addition to Facebook, there will also be support for OpenSocial and other social networks.

Some legal tricks that the developers have foreseen do not allow them to undermine them legally. The user of the program chooses which of his friends he allows to watch his film or listen to his music. If he opens the content for all or is engaged in piracy, then the responsibility falls specifically on him. Thus, in itself, the program itself is unlikely anyone will be able to recognize the illegal and prohibit. However, for sure Apple and record corporations will try to do something to protect their interests, because “DVD-Jon” almost lost the whole idea of ​​DRM.