Hacker Breaks iPod Copy Protection

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Professional hacker breaks iPod copy protection

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October 29, 2006
Geek breaks the iPod code
A Norwegian computer hacker has started a business that could drive Steve Jobs crazy, writes Robert Levine of Fortune magazine
GROWING UP in a small town in southern Norway, Jon Lech Johansen loved to take things apart to figure out how they worked.

When he was 14, his father bought a digital camera that came with bug-ridden software. Johansen analysed the code and wrote a program that worked better.

When he bought an early MP3 player that kept crashing, he studied how it worked, wrote a more reliable program, and posted it on the internet so other people could download it free.

Later, the company that made the device asked him about writing a new version, but he didn't hear back after he sent in his resume “I assume it had something to do with my age,
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