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MACC
May 19th, 2005, 23:07
I thought I would post this since OLLYDBG was used and it was the
only program that was easy enough to do it.
I won't tell the whole sorted affair it would be to long so here is a link
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000534.html
("http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000534.html
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A quick story Maui x stream is the streaming video company that
claimed it did not use any GPL code for its products. After memory dumps
it was looking like they stole code from XVId, vorbis and others.
Until these findings were posted then they started packing the EXEs.
Progress was then slow to finding out the truth.
It took me about 2-3 days to figure out a universal way to unpack all the products that they made. Then it was clear that they did indeed steal code.
The tutorial for this is on that site above. It is by EVENT_HORIZON.
My contribution was the unpacking method itself (MACC)

1bitshort
May 21st, 2005, 06:39
> Then it was clear that they did indeed steal code.
so now what?

MACC
May 21st, 2005, 08:52
Now to try and figure out how exactly these programs use the
code and how they were all put together.
Still don't know where the vxmplayer came from. I know it is
based on the sun java audio player but the main vxm class
is an iffy. It could be theirs or it may be based on something else.
I just don't know.

1bitshort
May 21st, 2005, 12:08
I'd encourage you to contact the company that you think might've had their code stolen. A simple email would do - "here are my findings, i'm not sure if they're correct but i believe they're worthy of further investigation to ensure your technology isn't being stolen"

MACC
May 21st, 2005, 13:41
Most of the investigation into what is used is on the drunkenblog
and the developers involved have already been notified, however
there is still the matter of how they were used and by which
means they are accessed.
There is more than one company involved whose products
were stolen.