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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. Jobs and Kerry by jamienk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I support John Kerry. Recently, in a bid to be more palatable to US business interests, he had Steve Jobs (and Warren Buffet) sign on with his campaign. Jobs is advising him on tech issues. The same day this was annonced, Kerry spoke about trade with China and India -- his main trade priorities there will be to curb their "software piracy."

    In my mind, this is clearly a short-sighted, feeble software priority. Clearly, the US should encourage open source code throughout the world for its verifiable security, standards support, freedom of use, and, as a commodity, for it's potential to further other entrepenurial endeavors (including the arts).

    Instead, Jobs advises to spend energy and moral capital on saving his nihilistic compromise with the old-fashioned IP distributors.

    Apple makes good hardware. They make some good software. They make pretty graphic designs advertising these wares. But their vision for Western culture is shallow and self-serving.