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

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

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

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

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

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

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.