...or something like that. I've been trying to follow this whole Sony DRM situation and was suprised to see that one of the blogs I usually watch for FCEUXD SP updates was reporting on the whole fiasco. Actually, more than reporting, he was actively involved in the discovery process. (content has been ripped from my own page due to lazyness)
Sebastian Porst (sp) has recently updated his site yet again with information on Sony's alleged licensing violation on top of it's already intrusive Digital Rights Management rootkit. He has been updating with largely increased frequency since he started pursuing and studying Sony's code, which he first posted about November 14th. Beginning with some dubious data found in one of the included executables provided by Matti Nikki (muzzy), sp used reverse engineering techniques to identify possible software licensing violations in additional code. LGPL violations, and then finally some very promising matches for GPL violations. An ironic move considering the software itself was meant to preserve copyrighting measures in the first place. The violated software in question was part of the VLC media player project and, in another irony, created by the Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen (more famously, DVD Jon) who has gained noteriety with anti-DRM programs and is currently at MP3tunes in San Diego.
sp, who among NES reverse engineering circles is known for his work on Faxanadu and adding to advancing NES debugging with FCEXD SP (currently version 1.05), has been doing some really great work. His website, and muzzy's, can be found below for some very in depth information.
I had a brief conversation with sp about his recent postings and asked him what his findings ultimately mean for the whole Sony DRM situation?
sp responded, "F4I need to release their source code of the project or they're in violation of the GPL, maybe I'm going to formally request the source code from them in one of my next updates. So far neither F4I nor Sony-BMG addressed the licensing issue anywhere; only silence from them."
So there you have it. Hopefully this all turns out for the benefit of the public. Great work guys.
linkage:
http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/sp</a>
http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/muzzy</a>
and to top it all of, a new comic sp found to his amusement <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>:
Sebastian Porst (sp) has recently updated his site yet again with information on Sony's alleged licensing violation on top of it's already intrusive Digital Rights Management rootkit. He has been updating with largely increased frequency since he started pursuing and studying Sony's code, which he first posted about November 14th. Beginning with some dubious data found in one of the included executables provided by Matti Nikki (muzzy), sp used reverse engineering techniques to identify possible software licensing violations in additional code. LGPL violations, and then finally some very promising matches for GPL violations. An ironic move considering the software itself was meant to preserve copyrighting measures in the first place. The violated software in question was part of the VLC media player project and, in another irony, created by the Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen (more famously, DVD Jon) who has gained noteriety with anti-DRM programs and is currently at MP3tunes in San Diego.
sp, who among NES reverse engineering circles is known for his work on Faxanadu and adding to advancing NES debugging with FCEXD SP (currently version 1.05), has been doing some really great work. His website, and muzzy's, can be found below for some very in depth information.
I had a brief conversation with sp about his recent postings and asked him what his findings ultimately mean for the whole Sony DRM situation?
sp responded, "F4I need to release their source code of the project or they're in violation of the GPL, maybe I'm going to formally request the source code from them in one of my next updates. So far neither F4I nor Sony-BMG addressed the licensing issue anywhere; only silence from them."
So there you have it. Hopefully this all turns out for the benefit of the public. Great work guys.
linkage:
http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/sp</a>
http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/muzzy</a>
and to top it all of, a new comic sp found to his amusement <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>:
