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Subject: DVD Jon attacks Windows Media encoding


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Date Posted: 15:30:14 09/05/05 Mon

Notorious software hacker DVD Jon has succeeded in removing encoding on Windows Media streams that restricts playback to Microsoft's Windows Media Player software

John Lech Johansen, who got his nickname after hacking the copy protection on DVDs so that they could be copied to a computer hard drive, revealed in his So sue me blog that he had reverse engineered encryption coding in order to allow people to access the content using open source media player software.

Derk-Jan Hartman, who works on one such open source player, VideoLAN, said that he and a fellow developer had expressly asked Johansen to help.

'VideoLAN members need to multicast video, but the Windows Media Player creates NSC files that contain encoded text,' he said. 'You need that information in order to connect to the video stream."'

Johansen has also found a way round Apple's iTunes DRM - and while the company keeps closing the loophole it does not take him long to reopen it - and he has adapted Google's Video Viewer to allow wider access.

'I oppose proprietary formats and protocols because they're bad for consumers and bad for the free market,' he explains in his blog.

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