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New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM
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."
Slashdot, it really whips the apples llama in the ass to think different in soviet russia.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of ml_ipod plugins.
Agreed on all points. I wish Slashdot would please stop posting articles which express the viewer's opinion in such a direct manner. This is SUPPOSED to be a news and discussion site, but keep the news, news, and keep opinions to the discussion.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
As in contrast with...your totally nonsensical bullshit, you mean? ;-)
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And I find it comforting that fetuses in these places are being made safe because their parents have guns to use in their defense against the advancing hordes.
Damn straight. Every prospective parent needs an Uzi or a Heckler and Koch submachine gun to fend off the tribes of forcible abortionists that are roaming the USA, whipping out fetuses while armed with nothing more than a twenty year old vaccum cleaners, a blunt knitting needle and a rusty sardine can lid.
And Praise the Lord for the existence of right-thinking patriots like you, with the forethought and insight to warn the population about this little known impending threat to future generations of Christian Americans.
Remember, if someone posing as a vaccuum cleaner salesman turns up at your door, it's almost certainly one of these forcible abortionists on a reconnaisance mission.
Shoot first and ask questions later.