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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. FP Biznach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fP?

  2. 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.

  3. looks like its time. by minus_273 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that i took linux and distributed under the BSD licence as Fari-linux. This way you can do what you want to do with linux without that GPL DRM crap. sound familiar?

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  4. Re:Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They'll need all that money when the Apple Records case goes to court. Maybe they shouldn't have legally agreed to stay out of all things music, and then turned around and built a music store, a portable music player, and a big music media player - not to mention releasing a stripped down version of eMagic's software as GarageBand.

    I wonder when Ringo's in charge, if he'll have the same cult following and ability to command the RDF field? ;)

  5. Re:Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I will actually respond, even though I have mod points at the moment. I was tempted to just mod you down...

    Jesus! Bow down to the jackass with mod points! Oooooooooo!

  6. PPC Emulator for x86 runs Mac OS X !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The unbelievable has happened: there's a free (beer & speech) ppc Emulator http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/index.html available for Windows and Linux. It even runs OS X. A bit slow thoug:

    Due to the nature of emulation, PearPC is quite slow (the client will run about 500 times slower than the host). Note that only the CPU is that slow, the speed of the emulated hardware doesn't suffer that much from the emulation; e.g. the speed of simulated harddrive/CDROM is quite good, especially when using the busmaster interface. This situation is better if you can use the JITC (about 40 times slower) but still not ready for productive use.

    The following operating systems were tested and run (to some extend) under PearPC:

    Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC: Runs very well
    Darwin for PPC: Runs well
    Mac OS X 10.3: Runs well with some caveats
    OpenBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting (accesses PCI in an unsupported way)
    NetBSD for PPC: Crashes while booting