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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. Obvious by thebra · · Score: 5, Redundant

    "How will Apple respond?"
    With FairPlay v3.

    1. Re:Obvious by millahtime · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Don't forget that any DRM can be reverse engineered. This is just a viscious cycle.

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    2. Re:Obvious by dirk · · Score: 1, Redundant

      This isn't about something becoming obsolete, this is about buying something you know you can't use right now. If you bought a tape, and the guy says "You know that won;t work in your CD player" and you say "Yeah, I know", you have no right to later complain that the tape won't play in your CD player. If you buy a music file you know won't work on your portable (or your OS), you give up all right to complain because it doesn't work. You knew it going in, and you bought it anyway.

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      "Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
  2. Re:If you don't like the terms of the iTMS service by nharmon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mod parent up.

    The idea of intellectual property is the product of the RIAA and MPAA's attempt to strip usage rights from consumers.

    In reality, there is no such thing as intellectual property because in order to truly own something, you have to be able to control it, which is not possible with information.

  3. Re:My point by OrangeTide · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "reputation" ? reputation for what? Sounds a bit arbitrary to me.

    People buy Hondas because everyone else buys Hondas. There isn't a clear reason behind it that I have been able to discern. (and I recently spend a few months shopping for a new car and settled on a Chrysler. mostly because they had the better deal on fianance and I'm somewhat tall and fit better in a larger car).

    Also my car has the HP of both of yours combined. not that it was even a selling point for me.
    I have no idea what the reputation of Chrysler is, nor do I care. Also it helps when looking for my car in a parking lot that I'm not driving the same thing everyone else is.

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