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

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

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.

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.

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.