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'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-guy-cracks-me-up dept.

WillemdeMoor writes "Yahoo News runs a story on Jon Johansen, aka DVD Jon, cracking Google's in-browser video player. Addict3d.org has some more details, including links to Johansen's patch (Win32 executable) and Jon's blog entry at nanocrew.net."

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  1. Another Windows only service. by caluml · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Windows 2000 or later with latest updates installed; Firefox 1.0+ or IE 5.0+. DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime.

    Cmon Google.

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  2. Google and Windows by aarku · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's up with Google releasing all these Windows-only apps, anyways? Really, now.

  3. Gah! It's not even useful for most! by LincolnQ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Quote:
    This means you can publish video that will play on your webpage and will work for anyone who has Google's player installed.

    That part is highly misleading! The people who want to view video on your website each individually need to download the patch! It's not very useful to content providers with this restriction.

    How about users? Who would download this patch? Well, people who want to watch videos tagged with application/x-google-vlc-plugin that aren't from google. Not too many of these...

  4. It's really disappointing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you check out the blog, you'll see that there's a nice goto at the end of the if statement.

    Supposedly Google only hires top-coders, so what's up with that?