DVD Jon has done it again. First he said “@%$&* You” (in Norwegian, of course) to the MPAA when he hacked the DVD code in 2000. Then in ‘05 he claimed to have hacked his way through the bramble called iTunes DRM. Now he has claimed to have hacked through the iPhone.

I’ve found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to AT&T...The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work. Stay tuned!

So now what? If DVD Jon does in fact work his way around AT&T and Apple with the iPhone, will it really make a difference? Was the barrier to purchase primarily the carrier the iPhone was on? Yes and no.

I would argue that although AT&T has a bad reputation for dropped calls and poor customer service, the barrier to success was price, not carrier. I heard nothing but bad things about AT&T yet did it stop me from buying the iPhone? No way.

But that’s me. For those in other countries where the iPhone isn’t out yet, that’s a huge difference. My official word for DVD Jon is this:

“You rock. It doesn’t affect me, but you are the man for cracking the code.”