Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen has released a patch that will remove Google’s restriction and allow the playback of video files that aren’t on the video.google.com server.
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.
Source: PCMag.com
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