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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. Re:Obvious by Shisha · · Score: 2, Troll

    I will actually respond, even though I have mod points at the moment. I was tempted to just mod you down and I'll explain why:

    - Your post doesn't actually say anything but an opion that you don't support with anything.

    - One can't really argue with a statement that contains nothing to dispute. That's why it's so tempting just to mod it down.

    - I'll try to argue this time. Next time I'll just mod rubbish posts down when I can, it's the moderators job.

    I guess you're trying to imply that Apple is evil because they're trying to make as much money as they possibly can. What _exactly_ is wrong with that? In fact they're obliged to try to make money by their shareholders. They're not killing childern / whales / trees in the process as far as I know. In fact the least ethical thing they're doing, as far as I'm aware is playing along with RIAA in helping to protect their copyrighted material. I don't think there's anything wrong with trying lo limit the number of devices a music file can be played on. It may not be convenient, but it's not exactly the same ballpark as RIAA trying to stop me playing DVDs I own on a Linux computer.

    Have you noticed how every high street shop actually cooperates with RIAA as well by selling their CDs?