A 22-year-old hacker, known across the web as "DVD Jon", threatens to plunge Apple's music business into chaos after cracking the software that prevents its iPod players working with any other online service but its own iTunes music store.
Jon Lech Johansen, a Norwegian hacker who achieved fame aged 15 by breaking the copy-protection technology used in DVDs, claims to have "reversed engineered" Apple's Fairplay system and is offering to license it to companies that want to offer content that will play on iPods.
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