In the annals of film history, few titles carry the weight of "most expensive movie ever made" in their respective genres. But in 2005, a director known simply as released a film that didn't just break records—it shattered the glass ceiling for what the adult film industry could achieve.
In the early 2000s, the issue was magnified by a Norwegian programmer named Jon Lech Johansen, who was nicknamed "DVD Jon" by the press. At just 15 years old, Johansen created a software program that cracked the encryption on commercial DVDs. Hollywood studios considered him a major threat, filing legal charges against him for contributing to worldwide DVD piracy. After a high-profile trial, the Norwegian courts ultimately ruled that Johansen had the right to copy legally purchased DVDs for his own use. joone film pirates