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Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:31 UTC (Sat) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028)Parent article: Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Open source??? This requires Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.
Another free but closed app on linux is great. It would be
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Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker) Posted Oct 11, 2009 8:02 UTC (Sun) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
I wonder if Gnash or SWFdec could be made to impersonate the Adobe Flash player, so they could work with Hulu.
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker) Posted Oct 11, 2009 8:56 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
They would have to defeat the Flash DRM.
This is very easy to do, of course. The encryption they use is a stripped-
So breaking the DRM is easy, but it would automatically be hit with a DMCA
Thankyou, USA Government and friends for keeping the world safe for piracy,
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker) Posted Oct 12, 2009 7:16 UTC (Mon) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
> So breaking the DRM is easy, but it would automatically be hit with a DMCA
> violation for breaking digital copyright protection schemes, or whatever is > the equivalent in Canada or the EU or whatever. (DMCA is really just a > legislation passed to enforce a international treaty if you look at it > closely)
Doesn't this fall under the reverse engineering clause of the DMCA? There is some confusing language in there about "achiev[ing] interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs."
If not, support could still be added to Gnash / SWFDec in loadable module form. Not everyone lives in the US and Canada.
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