Hacking the Streamium

UVwarning writes "I submitted a review to Slashdot about a month ago complaining about various problems with Philips' streamium MCi-200 (an Internet micro hi-fi system). The main gripes being that Philips controls which Internet radio stations you can listen to and that the PC-link software (which is used to serve MP3s from your PC to your Streamium) only runs on Windows. I managed to fix both of these problems by reverse engineering the PC-link protocol and writing my own pc-link server in perl, which can be run on practically any OS, *and* can trick the Streamium into playing any Internet MP3 stream that you want! This is a must-have for any Streamium user. Here is a more detailed article along with the perl script and an outline of the PC-link protocol."

Comments

Re:Stupid Screwball

[aminorex]

Why would it matter if he was or wasn't an American?
We imprisoned Manuel Noriega in Florida for breaking
American laws, although he was a Panamanian citizen
living in Panama. That's just the most famous
example. There are a thousand Afghanistani patriots
now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for defending their
country against attack. Heck, we don't just
prosecute people, we assassinate them without trial,
regardless of whether they are citizens or not, or
whether their supposed crimes are capital offenses
or not (as in Yemen recently), so it would not be
outside of the customary practices of the U.S. to
simply kill anybody in their home, anywhere in the
world, for breaking an American law.