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

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    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...