HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

Jon Lech Johansen (aka DVD Jon), the wiz kid who broke the DVD content-scrambling system at age 15, is now working on licensing FairPlay [via] to companies who want their content to play on Apple’s devices. FairPlay is Apple’s version of DRM—which Johansen has reverse-engineered.

RealNetworks first did this with Harmony back in 2004, applying FairPlay [...]

Some landline connection problems kept me offline for most of last week. I spent the weekend scanning the stories I missed—here are some worth noting:

DVD Jon comes to the US to work with MP3.com founder: why, oh why, would a wiz kid would want to partner with a man who may be bold but fails [...]