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?
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?
It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
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.
/s, in jest, in case that isn’t clear haha
It's never too late than never?
> Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
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.
> 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?
Non-profit, not firm.