Google Video Browser Already Hacked
Remember DVD Jon? He’s the scandinavian wunderkind who cracked the infamous content scrambling system that was the thin nighty that protected a voluptuous naked DVD from the prying eyes of the, arrr, internet pirates. After tearing that sheer garment from the bosom of the movie biz cash cow he proceeded to rape all other sorts of media as well (including at one point Apple’s iTunes Music Store).
Apparently less that 24 hours after Google introduced their video browser so that you could watch some nerd’s dog barking at a toy robot, DVD Jon has cracked the tool so that you can use it to watch any movie and not just google’s precious movies:
Google Video Viewer included code to prevent it from being used to play non-Google hosted videos. Jon’s patch disables that, allowing the player to be used with any videos. Given that VideoLAN is open source, all I can say is, what was Google thinking? When you take an open source tool and try to make it proprietary, you’re inviting a fight, and it’s fitting that Jon was the one to take the fight to Google.
Sorry Hollywood, box office receipts are gonna be in a slump for a while because there’s an awful lot of dancing baby movies out there…
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