'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock

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[news=http://www.google.nl/images/firefox/google.gif]Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen has cracked the lock on Google's new in-browser video player. Johansen, also known as 'DVD Jon' for his work on decrypting DVD security codes, has created a patch for the Google Video Viewer—less than 24 hours after the search giant shipped the video playback plug-in, a tool based on the open-source VideoLAN media player.

The patch, released on Johansen's 'So Sue Me' blog, effectively disables a modification Google made to the VideoLAN code to prevent users from playing videos that are not hosted on Google's servers. Johansen said the patch, which requires the .Net run-time framework, will remove Google's restriction and allow the playback of video files that aren't on the video.google.com server.[/news]

Source: PCMag.com

[peat moss]

24 hours ? What took him so long ? I like this guy 's so sue me attitude !

[Darth Sushi]

Now that's what I call googlewacking!

[muchspl3]

don't see the point, is anything worth while on google.video

[maebach]

never used googlevideo

[peat moss]

never used googlevideo

Its new ! Time will tell .

[suprafreak6]

i saw that on attack of the show on g4 today wierd this like the 4th thing i see on there that i see on here