“DVD Jon”, the hacker behind the hacking of CSS (content scrambling system) has reverse engineered Apple’s FairPlay DRM (the stuff used in iTunes) and is now going commercial. Johansen has plans to sell the technology (presumedly through his company, Doubletwist Ventures) to companies interested in DRMing their media but not interested in going through Apple to do it.

My first thought on this was the same as Peter’s at GizBuzz - how will he get through this legally?! As I think about it more, I can’t honestly think they went into this without knowing there would be a court battle. I’m sure they have an argument at hand.

Read more at GizBuzz

Rob LaGesse has posted a fantastic “simplified definition” of BitTorrent. BitTorrent is one of those protocols that is really hard to describe properly (much like RSS) but I think Rob has done a fantastic job with his definition.

I’ll be referring people to this page quite often!