Editing Jon Lech Johansen (section)

{{Short description|Norwegian programmer (born 1983)}}
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| name        = Jon Lech Johansen
| image       =Jon Lech Johansen.jpg
| image_size  = 200px
| caption     =Jon Lech in 2005
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1983|11|18}}
| birth_place = [[Harstad Municipality|Harstad]], Troms, Norway
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| occupation  =
| known_for   = [[DeCSS]]
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| website     = {{URL|http://nanocr.eu}}
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'''Jon Lech Johansen''' (born November 18, 1983, in [[Harstad Municipality|Harstad]], Norway), also known as '''DVD Jon''', is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on [[reverse engineering]] [[File format|data formats]]. He wrote the [[DeCSS]] software, which decodes the [[Content Scramble System]] used for [[DVD]] licensing enforcement. Johansen is a [[autodidact|self-trained]] [[software engineer]], who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case. He moved to the United States and worked as a software engineer from October 2005 until November 2006.  He then returned to Norway, but moved back to the United States in June 2007.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://nanocr.eu/about/ | title=About | publisher=nanocr.eu | first=Jon Lech | last=Johansen | year=2004 | access-date=2009-06-06}}</ref>