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YouTube sells YouTube music subscription, the SONOS has not been intended to play on a YouTube video. Now it does, that's the SONOS hack. YouTube has not been d
by deadf00d 5y ago
YouTube sells YouTube music subscription, the SONOS has not been intended to play on a YouTube video. Now it does, that's the SONOS hack.
YouTube has not been designed to play YouTube videos on a SONOS outside of their YouTube Music subscription. Now it does, that's the YouTube hack.
But I assume the title is a bit catchy.
- charcircuit 5y agoPlaying a video from a website isn't hacking them. If you did the same with a video on fbi.gov, you didn't hack the FBI. Or are you considering the process of downloading the videos from YouTube hacking since it's against their terms of service?
- ratg13 5y agoThe hacking community understands the definition of hacking to be 'modifying something to be used differently than it's intended purpose'. The idea of 'hacking' you are referring to is a colloquialism that is shared by young teens and entertainment media. It is not a reflection of reality.
- hunter2_ 5y agoYou're certainly right about the original definition of hacking, and even with that in mind, YouTube is not being modified: it was designed to deliver the MP4 stream to any client that asks. And even the Sonos device is arguably doing a thing it was designed (albeit undocumented) to do: consume an ADTS stream (i.e., if a burglar stole the Sonos, they would not possess a hacked Sonos). The middleware is what's getting hacked here.