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Napster Has Been Cracked

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-thought-it-would-take-this-long dept.

Sabathius writes "Users have found a way to skirt copy protection on Napster Inc's portable music subscription service just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free...""

4 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. All I can say is.... by BladesP9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH After all the bitching they did regarding iTunes music store and things of that nature - I am glad that this happened. With any luck, the music industry will lose faith in them and they will completely fold. Even iTunes doesn't have a viable method of removing the copy protection aside from simply burning the songs to CD ... **AFTER** you've bought them I'm going to sign up for napster now to get my free songs before the get put out of business. This is wonderful news for we iPod owners.

  2. Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... by GweeDo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "CDs" it is plural....try again.

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  3. Re:Whatever by homo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and also very ugly.. not to mention fat!

  4. Re:Aw Crap by no_opinion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What you are doing is unethical. So how do you rationalize this? It's clearly a violation of their agreement and you are not only cheating them, you are cheating artists too. Your desire to get an artist's content for free does not trump their desire to get paid. If I decide that I want to sell a song that I've written, you have no right to take it from me without compensation. The 14 day trial is so that you can try out the system, not so you can take artists' hard work for free. As someone who makes a living from music, I urge you to think twice about doing this. If you really want our music, pay for it. If you don't want to pay what we're asking (or what our representatives, the labels, are asking) then don't buy it and don't steal it either.