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Playfair Relocates to India

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the taking-pea-out-of-the-pool dept.

Lord Grey writes "Imagine my surprise to see playfair 0.5.0 appear on Freshmeat's project list. Remember, the project was pulled after Apple filed a Cease-and-Desist order just a few days ago. playfair's new web site talks a bit about the move, as well as sporting the latest release of the controversial utility."

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  1. Dupe post, not story by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was the 2nd reader post from the original story of PlayFair being pulled. Why is this news?

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  2. News ? by Krunch · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=103485&c id=8817454

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  3. Re:No good can come of this by nuffle · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you want to assume the moral high ground--"I don't believe the majority of the people who use my program will use it so that they can share their files on Kazaa."--then you'd damn well better stick to it, instead of cutting and running for the sewer at the first sign of trouble.
    What they did was fine.

    Not everyone has the desire to be a martyr for the cause. Whoever developed this is clearly worried about being found guilty of a crime or fighting an expensive legal battle. They have an easy, legal avenue that allows them to do what they want without fear of renumeration. What's so dumb about that?

    If you're so critical, perhaps you can be the one to take the "moral high ground" and stage some civil disobedience by hosting this stuff in the US.
  4. Re:For Once I don't Agree by sh00z · · Score: 5, Informative
    How about playing the files on non apple hardware such as a portable mp3 player?
    You would have to transcode the file to mp3, a function that iTunes already lets you do. No need to circumvent the DRM.
    Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car?
    Uh, have you even looked at iTunes? That circle in the top-right corner that says "Burn to CD?"
    What if you were searching for hidden messages and wanted to play it backwards?
    Open it it QuickTime, and hold down the left-arrow button.
    Or play it on your network-enabled-but-not-approved-by-apple-home-ste reo.
    There are several options that don't involve circumventing the DRM. Besides the abovementioned burn-to CD option, you could try this (wireless), or this (wired).

    Now, if you had said that you want to play your iTunes Music Store purchases on your Linux box, you'd actually have an argument.

  5. Re:doubt that will last by indigeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    I live in India and AFAIK apple has zero investment here (no call centers, never seen a Apple retailer here). Near zero percentage of Indians use Macs too.
    Moreover, the sarovar website is hosted by Asianet, which is a leftleaning TV channel in a state with a history of communist governments (BTW communist is not a bad word here). So not only are they cool with the idea of community ownership of information they are also not to be messed with easily since they can very well publicise it.
    Not saying that India has never censored information (pakistani news/TV is the most commonly banned), but its not very common either.

  6. Re:Sarovar by swapsn · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sarovar means lake(i think). Is there a hidden meaning in this?

    Yeah, sarovar is lake in Hindi. Its generally used only in written language though.
    In this case, the hidden meaning may be something like "pool of projects" or somesuch.

  7. Re:For Once I don't Agree by DougMackensie · · Score: 3, Informative

    You would have to transcode the file to mp3, a function that iTunes already lets you do. No need to circumvent the DRM.

    erm, no you cannot transcode a fairplay aac file to a mp3 file. You can burn it to a cd, and then rip it, but a direct transcode is not possible.

  8. Asianet, channel and Asianet, ISP are different by raj2569 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Though they share common name, they are 2 different companies. They started as one, but now split and managed by 2 different groups.

    raj

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  9. Re:For Once I don't Agree by Reverberant · · Score: 2, Informative
    erm, no you cannot transcode a fairplay aac file to a mp3 file. You can burn it to a cd, and then rip it, but a direct transcode is not possible.

    You can't transcode a Fairplay AAC file to mp3 directly in iTunes, but if you know how to access the QuickTime API using Applescript, RealBasic or Apple's tools, you can transcode the files easily.

    Also, you may be able to transoce Fairplay files using digital audio editing software that uses QuickTime.