Begin forwarded message: From: Randall <rvh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: September 4, 2006 9:01:24 PM EDT To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [IP] iTunes FairPlay DRM is cracked On Sep 4, 2006, at 6:44 PM, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: September 4, 2006 11:28:51 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:; Subject: iTunes FairPlay DRM is cracked iTunes FairPlay DRM is cracked By Macworld staff August 31, 2006 Anti-copy protection activists have released a new solution that breaks Apple's FairPlay DRM, which secures iTunes-purchased tracks. The solution, QTFairUse6, comes from the same activists who this week unleashed FairUse4WM, which can strip copy protection from Windows Media files.
WMA has been cracked for quite some time - see. e.g., http:// www.tunebite.com for one such tool.
I wonder what this fact will do to the "monthly subscription" music download services such as aol announced last week - their business model is based on receiving a monthly fee in exchange for the DRM key which unlocks the music subscribers download. Charter, (Paul Allen's cable company) has offered Charter Music for a while - same business model.
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