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FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tag-you're-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago Apple released iTunes 4.5. The minor changes Apple made to their Music Sharing Protocol (daap) were reverse engineered after just one day. According to a post in the Doom9 forums FairPlay version 2 has also been reverse engineered. playfair has already been patched with the new code and is back online with FSF India providing legal support. How will Apple respond?"

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  1. Maybe... by Plaeroma · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Apple should hire the guys, as they are obviously at least as good as the guys they have now.

  2. Re:Obvious by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    > > "How will Apple respond?"
    >
    > With FairPlay v3.

    I give 2:1 odds and 500 quatloos that says v3 is cracked within 48 hours.

    Anyone care to take 10:1 and 50 quatloos that says it's less than 24?

  3. ...they'll respond by by pinqkandi · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Apple will respond by being glad that the site has been "Slashdotted" for Slashdot and the many other news sites linking to it.

  4. Re:Obvious by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd say Apple will respond by paying someone to get the story submitted to Slashdot with a link to the offending website, thereby ensuring no one will be able to download it.

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    "People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
  5. Re:Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For one, MS will want to keep as much money to themselves as possible. They'll also want the RIAA to quick overreacting every time a weakness in DRM is exploited.

    The RIAA will be learning from the best.

    If you ever need to learn how to make money selling copyrighted media, never lowering prices, keeping money to yourself, eliminating competition and NOT reacting when security exploits are found, the Microsoft is your new messiah.

  6. Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The guys writing Playfair are obviously amoralists"

    I agree. As someone else put it so beautifully, apple is doing the equivalent of giving us mother's milk, perfect and pure with iTMS.

    To break it is so, so wrong. I'm afraid my iPod will no longer work, and I'll have to go back to buying CD's.

    I like iTMS, because it lets me show my support for Apple. I try to wear Apple branded clothes and a bumper sticker to show other people that I support apple. I feel good about myself when I do that.

  7. A little too close for comfort by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 2, Funny
    Cracked DRM? Damn those anti-corporate open-source hippy weed-smokin' bastards! Leaked Windows source code? Damn those anti-corporate open-source hippy weed-smokin' bastards! A new worm that only affects Outlook or MSIE? Damn those anti-corporate open-source hippy weed-smokin' bastards!

    And I for one welcome our new anti-corporate open-source hippy weed-smokin' bastards.

    --
    If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
  8. Re:PPC Emulator for x86 runs Mac OS X !!! by phillymjs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Due to the nature of emulation, PearPC is quite slow (the client will run about 500 times slower than the host).

    So PearPC is written in Java, then?

    Ba-ZING!