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

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

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

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

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.