New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM 1126
goombah99 writes "PlayFair is an integrated utility that removes the DRM from AAC music files protected by Apple's FairPlay encryption. Information is limited, but the source code is on SourceForge.net and it appears to actually remove the encryption itself and not simply hijack the QuickTime audio stream as earlier methods did. The cracking operation can only be done on songs the user has already has valid licenses for and requires either an iPod or a windows computer for key recovery. If you choose to redistribute these songs you will be violating the contract you bought them under: better hope they aren't watermarked or you might end up paying for releasing one in the wild. To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard."
Tin foil hat ON! (Score:1, Funny)
Well, obviously Bill Gates wrote the crack.
Let's hope (Score:5, Funny)
Vandals! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let's hope (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We can only hope WMA will win! (Score:1, Funny)
Hello Sir,
You need to watch the Simpsons more. It is Rio de Janeiro whose streets is overrun by monkies. This is in Brazil, NOT Argentina!
Re:Lies (Score:1, Funny)
Interesting... Your credit card number seems to have found its way onto my hard drive. I guess I can get that new iPod Mini with my new credit card number.
Re:Lies (Score:3, Funny)
There's a hidden signature on every /. post: "I am not a lawyer, but I play one on /."
Re:What kind of comment is that? (Score:2, Funny)
(apologies to Irving Berlin)
Re:Lies (Score:5, Funny)
That is simply not true. A friend of mine who is a sociologist studied this very phenomenon and found that it didn't exist.
The response to this article is hilarious (Score:2, Funny)
Vandals (Score:5, Funny)
Vandal (van'dl)
1. vandal One who willfully or maliciously defaces or destroys public or private property.
2. A member of a Germanic people that overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and sacked Rome in 455.
As these people obviously have not maliciously defaced or destroyed public or private property, I can only assume, then, that the repeated references to them as "vandals" means that the FBI has identified the coders as coming from an obscure Germanic sect, whose culture was believed lost.
Which leads to a conundrum. If we don't arrest these people, then we are validating the viewpoint that the DMCA is far overreaching. If we do arrest these people, then we are destroying the remnants of a lost civilization important to our shared cultural heritage.
Declare a law overly broad, or destroy a valuable culture? What is Ashcroft to do?
They're not Vandals (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lies (Score:1, Funny)
Will you teach me how to do that?
Pathetic Signature (Score:1, Funny)
Did you just make this up?
Why are the people who put straw man arguments in their signatures the same ones who deal in child pornography?
Re:Lies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not Apple's problem (Score:4, Funny)
Or he may have grown up.
Re:Lies (Score:1, Funny)
Well done!
Re:Lies (Score:2, Funny)