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This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought Vide
by nindalf 4y ago
This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that.
The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
- p49k 4y agoMaybe they corrected it, but for me it says the opposite. > Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
- xNeil 4y agoThe article basically states that the reason the government banned it was because Chinese actors were using VideoLAN products (VLC) to deploy malware loaders onto citizens' devices. I don't understand why they banned videolan.org though. It's a French website, and I'd assume the Chinese actors were bundling malware when VLC was installed from another website and not videolan.org. Videolan.org is EXACTLY where VLC should be downloaded from to ensure the software you download is malware free - ironically, I'd expect banning the VLC website to increase VLC downloads from alternative sources, and thus increasing the possibility of the user downloading malware.
- YetAnotherNick 4y agoIt says > The reason behind blocking these apps is that the government feared these platforms were sending user data to China Maybe they have some CDN or some service in China?
- jbk 4y agoNone whatsoever.
- jbk 4y ago> It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm. Non-profit, not firm.
- elkos 4y agoyou work and ethics have been an inspiration to many
- gerdesj 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jbk https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jbk "JBK VLC" (search) ... French.
- jbk 4y ago> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
- ridgeguy 4y agoI greatly appreciate the resource you've built for everyone. Thank you!
- cheeze 4y agoThanks for all of your hard work and for not selling out. I love you folks.
- Eupraxias 4y agoReading this made my day. Thank you, from my heart, for this software - it is precious to me. I have relied on it since 2002 as my everyday media player on every device I have ever built. I have evangelized whenever and wherever I can.
- joecool1029 4y agoI know it's kind of funny to ask this, but have your parents received any weird legal mail from the Indian government that might be about the block?
- jbk 4y agolol. I actually checked with them :)
- boomboomsubban 4y agoA fun conversation to imagine. "How's your health? The family? Have you gotten any mail about my project being a Chinese cyber weapon? No? Well, that's confusing."
- TheNewsIsHere 4y agoClearly VideoLAN isn’t trying hard enough! /s, in jest, in case that isn’t clear haha