Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
Jon Lech Johansen has reverse engineered a proprietary algorithm, which is used to wrap Media Player NSC files and ostensibly protect them from hackers sniffing for the media's source IP address, port or stream format. He has also made a decoder available.
Johansen doesn't believe there is a good reason to keep the NSC files encrypted, because once you open the file with Media Player to start viewing the stream, the IP address and port can be revealed by running the netstat network utility that is included with most operating systems.
The hacker hopes his move will make content streamed to Media Player more widely available to users of alternative players on non-Windows platforms.
Johansen achieved notoriety when he was tried and re-tried in a Norwegian court for creating a utility that enabled him to play DVDs on his Linux PC. Prosecutors, acting in the interests of the beloved US Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), argued he had acted illegally by distributing his DeCSS tool to others via the internet. This, the prosecution, claimed, made it easier to pirate DVDs.
However, the court ruled in his favor, saying he had not broken the law in bypassing DVD scrambling codes that had stopped him from using his PC to play back DVDs.
Earlier this year Johansen developed a work around to bypass digital rights management (DRM) technology in Apple Computer's iTunes.
His latest hack was done to make Media Player content available to the open source VideoLAN Client (VLC) streaming media player. VLC is available for download to 12 different operating systems and Linux distributions and has seen more than six million downloads to Mac. Apple is even pre-loading VLC on some Macs destined for high schools in Florida.
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About 2 days ago... I referred to dvd-jon in a post about how Microsoft Vista's DRM will just be a waste of space and time.
I guess I can stand by that. ;)
I wish he hack the Encrypted dvd that the movie industry sends out to movie theaters. These TC releases with only 2 channel audio are killing me.
i agree shawners but that has got to be much more difficult and time consuming but more than likely doable!. telecines are bootyfull! but the sucky a** makes it not worth the leech sometimes. oh btw i bet bill is steaming of all people you would think he would expect this the more you try to control people the more it gets out of hand. keep creating protections and someone will more than likely be ready to crack them!
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like honestly, who does that?!?!
thing is, cracking windows drm is counterproductive
rather than people moving to open formats, now they'll just stay with the windows crap
you are either terribly lazy or just plain stupid if you use windows formats. my brother just ripped a few CDs in WMA format because he didnt bother to get audio grabber from me for making MP3s. i never download WMV/A files if i can help it.
Only if I'm REALLY desperate for a video/music file do I ever think of getting WMA/WMV files.
hell, now that i think about it. the only WMVs i ever get in my searches are the ones that are fake files in disguise. anyone who uses shareaza will know what im talking about. you search for a movie and you get back EXACTLY what you type as a result, and its only 900k
Agreed here. good post, notbob.Originally Posted by notbob
and I never have this problem, being that I never use the formats mentioned.
I totally agree with your comment about being counterproductive:why waste energy making something that sux better, when you can just use something thats better to begin with?
Ah, this brings another question to mind.
I have an ATI Wonder Elite TV tuner card in my machine and it comes with a modified CyberPower viewer for its software, for both TV/Cable Tuning and External Video capture. Whe I jack in a DVD into the External video port, most all the DVDs turn to snowy garbage two seconds later. I think we all know why. So is there a better program I can use with the ATI card to watch external videos through the Capture Input, that will let those DVDs pass through untouched and unaffected at the output of the screen? Tankies.
The Windows MediaPlayer have a program that try to destroy new mediafiles they not are from microsoft.
And beginners loaded whit troubles because they don't know how to salve it.
Yes microsoft are great in giving updates but whit there scan it gives beginners more trouble.
Yes a moneymaker who gives after the install more halfe programms on board to get costumers to buy the rest of it.
An Dvd burner from microsoft ? No way they don't want to do that; so we find all of this for free worldwide whit thanks to the hackers who makes it possible!
So no more big $ for mister Mic !
A thanksfull downloader
To all the hackers !
Skippy from the Netherlands
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