A 22-year-old Norwegian hacker claims to have broken the security coding for Apple’s iTunes. Currently, iTunes can only be played on Apple’s iPod.

But Jon Lech Johansen claims his program will trick computers into thinking any MP3 player is an iPod. Jason Jenkins of T3 Technology says, “I think Apple’s going to be spitting mad, to be honest. This is a potentially a huge problem for them. It’s going to go straight into the courts. I’m surprised, to be honest, if he gets away with it.”

International copyright lawyer Mark Stephens adds, “Because the only way that Apple can defend themselves, is bringing copyright actions against millions of people who use this. That effectively makes it impossible to do anything about it, on a practical level.”