The bigwigs at Hollywood always want to protect their content, and come up with their own "fair use" rules. These often are too restrictive for users that wish to push the envelope. For example, the mainstream entertainment industry would have never developed MP3 technology, and look now how popular the iTunes store is. Well, something similar is starting to happen for video.
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. He has also made a decoder available.
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