Jon Johansen — Norwegian Celebrity born on November 18, 1983,

Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon or GUI Jon, is a Norwegian programmer famous for his work on reverse engineering data formats... (wikipedia)

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.