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DVD Jon to work for MP3tunes.com
MP3tunes.com CEO Michael Robertson (best known for previous ventures including Lindows and MP3.com) is being coy about the details, but
he's not too shy to boast about his latest hire: "DVD Jon" Johansen,
the man behind DeCSS and recent Wall Street Journal cover boy.
According to Robertson, Johansen will be working on a new project that
will "bring digital music into the 21st century." Johansen isn't quite
as bashful: "I have no idea what I'll be doing, but I know it will be
reverse engineering, and I'm sure it will be interesting," he told
Wired News. MP3tunes.com sells DRM-free music files, mostly from
obscure independent artists.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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~J~ said 1:39PM on 10-19-2005
Well I'm gonna ask....
Who the hell IS this DVD John bloke? What's he do? Is he well known? Should I have heard from him?
This is the 8th website I've visited that has news about this, and sorry, but I've never heard of him!! lol
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AFD said 6:16PM on 10-19-2005
From what I've read, he broke the CSS copy-protection on commercial DVDs (DeCSS), reverse-engineered Google's video viewer to allow playback of videos from other servers, and wrote PyMusique, an interface for the iTunes music store that allowed for purchase of songs without the DRM copy-protection.
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