Globetechnology: Hacker cracks Google software — This guy is not only good, but fast!!

OSLO, Norway — The Norwegian who became a hacker hero for developing software to unlock copy-protection codes on DVD movies said he needed only one day to crack Google Inc.’s new video viewer.

Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, posted software on his “So Sue Me” website that he says modifies the viewer so that it plays videos hosted on any server. The company’s Google Video Viewer, in turn, was modified from the free VLC media player to restrict it to playing video hosted on Google’s own servers.