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aiolos

Mon 04 Dec, 2006


TiVo DRM cracked

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Historically,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> one of the main raps against TiVo has been its lack of support for non-Windows users with respect to transferring recordings off of the set-top box;<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> TiVoToGo is a privilege served up to Windows users only.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Well that's all about to change,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> if the crafty coders over at Sourceforge have anything to say about it.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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According to several sources <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>(most significantly,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> the <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>'forgers themselves)<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> a program that's been a year in the making <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>-<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>-<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> the so-called TiVo File Decoder <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>-<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>-<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> is finally stable enough to run in the wild from command lines worldwide.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Although there are currently no OS-specific GUIs to expedite the process,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Decoder will still perform a <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>.tivo-to-MPEG conversion without the need for tools like DirectShowDump,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> so it should only be a matter of time before polished Mac and Linux interfaces are compiled that dumb down the process for the average user.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>