Windows Media Player Hacked by DVD Jon

The Register reports:

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.

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Prior posts:
    Apr. 19, 2005 - Musik: Next Generation PyMusique Adds Support for Napster.
    Mar. 24, 2005 - Lessons Learned from iTunes Hack.
    Mar. 22, 2005 - Johansen Reenables PyMusique Apple iTunes Hack.