StreamBox VCR 1.0 BETA 3.1 Crack
August 22, 2000
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NOTE:
streambox vcr beta 31 is the most stable and feature-packed in all cases *except* that it seems to fail on windows media files.  SO, if you want to record windows media files, you need to use beta 30, but otherwise use beta 31.



StreamBox VCR is a brilliant example of reverse engineering; it will take the address of a non-recordable real audio file (or in fact a long list of such files), decode them, contact the proper realaudio servers, and bully the server into sending it the raw files which it then saves to your harddrive.

BUT, the program is naughty - every time you try to download a file it first tries to contact a streambox.com server over the internet to check whether you have permission to download that file.  It also makes you register with the company when you first run the program and sends your user name and email every time you try to download a file, suggesting that they might be planning to track information about the files you download over time.

This crack bypasses the code in the program that tries to connect to the streambox server.  AND it re-enables the ability to record realaudio rtsp/pnm streams, that was the hard part.

It should go without saying that this crack is being offered for educational purposes only. Thankz go out to perfx for the patching utility, and to the keyboard caper for the great tutorialz.

See the original streambox readme files for info about what's new with this version of streambox vcr.

*Sometime around 12/7/99, RealAudio obtained an injunction against StreamBox, preventing them from distributing the StreamBox VCR program (www.streambox.com for more info).  The StreamBox VCR program has never been commercially distributed, and I'm not sure what this implies about the legality of obtaining and using it with or without this crack.  The program itself simply asks you not to use it for commercial purposes.


