DVD Jon Cracks the Google Video Viewer
June 30th, 2005
DVD Jon has made available a patch that allows the Google Video Viewer, released on Monday, to play movies hosted on servers other than Google’s.
The Google Video Viewer is actually a modified version of the open-source VLC (VideoLAN Client).
Google seem a little non-plussed as to why DVD Jon, who became famous for cracking the CSS copy protection mechanism used by DVDs and for building a client that allows tunes to be purchased from iTunes without copy-protection being added to the file, would bother.
“We strongly advise users not to download this modification,” said Nathan Tyler, a Google spokesman. “It could result in security vulnerabilities in their computer and may disrupt their computer’s ability to access Google video.”
“We’ve designed our player to work well for our service. Once the player has been modified we can’t guarantee whether it will work well with our service.”
If anyone can come up with a useful application for a cracked Google Video Viewer, we’d love to hear it.
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