Well, it looks like Sony just keep pushing the envelope on this one. It seems that far from being content to simply cripple cutomers PC's with badly written DRM software of questionable legality, they stole the code to do it as well. Not only that but the guy they stole it from is none other than 'DVD Jon' Johansssen, the guy the MPAA spent considerable time effort and expense to fail in prosecuting for circumventing DVD encryption.
The XCP application "written" by First 4 Internet contains code from, among other sources, a function called DRMS.c which is part of the VideoLan project and written by DVD Jon. It's released under the LGPL license and as such is copyright subject to the conditions of that license which include making it clear where the code used originated from and making source code available on request. It's intention is to stop lazy programmers nicking chunks of code and reusing them without acknolwledgeing the source of that code. So it would seem that the programmers at First 4 Internet are not only incompetent they are Lazy Buggers as well!
The XCP application "written" by First 4 Internet contains code from, among other sources, a function called DRMS.c which is part of the VideoLan project and written by DVD Jon. It's released under the LGPL license and as such is copyright subject to the conditions of that license which include making it clear where the code used originated from and making source code available on request. It's intention is to stop lazy programmers nicking chunks of code and reusing them without acknolwledgeing the source of that code. So it would seem that the programmers at First 4 Internet are not only incompetent they are Lazy Buggers as well!
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