The guy that created this label, and probably copied it to millions of boxes that left the IBM warehouse. If someone else has an idea how we can use the item before we break the seal to get the item, let me know…
September 13, 2005
September 3, 2005
DVD Jon Does it again
As is reported by this article at the Register, DVD Jon has once again bypassed a barrier to user choice. He has now made it possible for any open source media player to play Windows Media NSC streams. There is already a developer working on getting the code included into VideoLAN.org’s VLC Media Player. This action will allow people to watch NSC multicasts on any platform that they choose (VLC already supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, as well as several embedded systems).
DVD Jon (real name: Jon Lech Johansen) received his title from authoring the venerable DeCSS program that allows people to play commercial DVDs on their computers running Linux. He later added to his fame by writing a client for Apple’s iTunes Music service that allowed people to download their purchased songs without having the DRM portion of the file added. All I can say is, keep it up Jon!