Playfair Relocates to India

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."

Comments

Dupe post, not story

[Gothmolly]

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

News ?

[Krunch]

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

Re:For Once I don't Agree

[sh00z]

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.

Re:doubt that will last

[indigeek]

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.

Re:For Once I don't Agree

[DougMackensie]

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.

Asianet, channel and Asianet, ISP are different

[raj2569]

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

raj