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Jon Johansen, best known as DVD Jon, has been given a job state-side in San Diego. His new position will be along side technology entrepreneur Michael Robertson.

“I have no idea what I’ll be doing, but I know it will be reverse engineering, and I’m sure it will be interesting,” Johansen told Wired News during a Friday stopover in San Francisco.

A world-famous reverse engineer by the time he was 16, the soft-spoken tinkerer outraged the motion picture industry in 1999 for his work on DeCSS, a successful project to crack the encryption on DVDs that led to Hollywood’s first lawsuits under the United States’ controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Since then, Johansen’s hacks for Apple Computer’s iTunes software and Microsoft’s Media Player have made headlines, and his blog — titled “So Sue Me” — has become must-see surfing for digital media geeks and, one suspects, entertainment company lawyers.

In a posting to his website late Tuesday, Robertson said he’d snapped up Johansen to work on a “significant new project” called Oboe at his digital music company MP3tunes. Oboe will “bring digital music into the 21st century,” Robertson wrote.

I guess we just have to wait and watch.

[via Wired]

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