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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.