music stores other than Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, his company said Tuesday.
Jon Lech Johansen, a 22-year-old Norway native who lives in technology, said Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist, the company that plans to license the code to businesses.
"What he did was basically reverse-engineer FairPlay," she said. "This allows other companies to offer content for the iPod."
At the moment, Apple aims to keep music bought from its iTunes online music store only available for Apple products, work on iPods.
Apple's dominance of digital music.
in the United States, while the iPod dominates digital music player sales with more than 60 percent of the market.
soared in recent years on the strength of the iPod, declined to comment.
Johansen, known as DVD Jon, gained fame when at the age of encryption codes on DVDs. This allowed DVDs to be copied and played back on any device.
Corp.
, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple.
Copyright 2006 Reuters.
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