# Jon Lech Johansen

> Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement. Johansen is a 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 for about a year, from October 2005 until November 2006, whereupon he returned to Norway. Johansen moved back to the United States in June, 2007.

*Norwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jon-lech-johansen

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** Norway
- **Born:** 1983-11-18
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #140

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/jonlech (@jonlech)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/jonlech/ (@jonlech)

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