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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. Re:Yeeeeah by 110010001000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, if you alias "video.google.com" to 127.0.0.1 then you wont be able to view any videos that aren't hosted locally.

    BTW, a hack is a hack - not matter how trivial it may be to you. To me the more important story is how this exposes a weakness in OSS (from Googles POV). Its trivial to change the source code. If the player was CSS it would be much less trivial. I don't know how google will respond. Perhaps with a CSS player?

  2. Re:Hold Your Horses by AviLazar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    minor fix to a program

    I think you are mistaken. It is not a "minor fix" but a "minor hack". Fixing it implies that it was broken, I am pretty sure it was not borken - just had a feature that Jon did not like.

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