So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

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.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

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

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