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Napster Has Been Cracked
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...""
Never saw that one coming.
...if you can fit "hundreds of thousands" onto one CD.
Seriously, though, who didn't see this coming?
http://xkcd.com/386/
Oh No...
Now the name Napster will be tried to illegally copied music... and after all the paid of the good number of that company...
Cruise TT
...to close the barn door
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
I thought all music downloaded from the internet was free?
Omnis amans amens
1. Launch DRM'd subscription-based music service. Nobody joins it but RIAA backs your model and you get lots of good music.
2. Wait for DRM to be cracked, in, ooh, three or four days.
3. Your subscriptions suddenly rocket
4. PROFIT!
I'm not wrong. You haven't thought about it hard enough.
so long as you're playing via /dev/dsp you can always grab the digital signal
Quiet you. If my next soundblaster comes with some new fangled Macrovision, it'll be your fault.
Or would that be Macroaudio?
napster just keeps finding a way to provide free music. lol. talk about irony.
Apparently, users have been sitting in front of their TV with a camcorder...
Hehe
iTunes: $0.99 per song.
Napster: 14 day free trial: All the songs you can download and copy to MP3.
Hrm... =)
Jason Lotito
Not if you build the copy protection into the user...
Golly... you mean it's possible to record the output of the soundcard. Wow... everything's cracked then.. including /. editors for posting this story.
Steve Jobs reportedly e-mailed record company executives a link to a blog detailing the hack. He apparently wants to paint Napster as an insecure service, no different from its original form all the while portraying iTunes as secure (PlayFair anyone?)
Ruthless business tactics IMHO, dare I say reminiscent of the Redmond giant. I wish he'd let consumers decide which service is better rather than try to sabatoge Napster with his industry connections and FUD.
(Disclaimer: Heard this as a rumor - I wasn't exactly CCed on Steve's e-mail - but I had no reason to disbelieve the source).
You only got 8 gigs in 14 days??
I'm gonna have to ask you for your badge and keyboard. You're suspended!
Every time I find a way to beat the system, Slashdot comes out with "look how people are beating the system! It's easy! N00bs take notice! Foolproof step-by-step instructions!" and then everyone jumps on the bandwagon, the system gets changed, and you ruin it for me. Way to go.
Fuckers.
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Before you criticise the craftwork, consider the medium.
You don't expect a pile of burning tires to be stacked neatly, do you? That's about the same as expecting coherence and grammar in a slashdot post.
Someone had to do it.
Don't use SHA-1
Everyone exclaims about the Analog hole. How can you stop recording something if you can hear it. I think I have discovered a solution. Blow out everyones ear drums and have their hearing replaced with a set of bionic hearing aids that conform to DRM. Through a real world ADC you can still the hear approved analog sounds in your environment, but all speakers, headphones and anything that can broadcast DRM media will be replaced with digital transmitters that interface with your DRM validated hearing aid. This will solve lots of problems! Of course, if/when the DRM is cracked and people upload hacked firmware to their ears a new specification will have to be devised and the ears upgraded. This could theoretically be applicable to our other senses. Digital Eyes, and Taste (DRM Emeril recipes).
What does moral relativism have to do with this? I would say nothing.
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Considering the Chinese didn't have very good luck stopping the opium trade with crucifixion, it looks like the RIAA will have to spend big money on Congress now to get some _really_ tough penalties in force.
I have just cracked LP copy protection. I have plugged my record player into the line in button on my sound card, dropped the needle and clicked "record". This is a banner day. Hail to me. I am off to crack my camcorder next.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
for audiophiles and perfectionists ....
:)
Turns out they don't care since they'd never purchase that low quality of music in the first place eh?
Dear Slashdot User We have been researching this technology for several months. Please stop revealing our trade secrets. kthxbye teh RIAA
I think, therefore I am. I think?
Of course, we all know the eventual solution to closing the "Analog Hole"... make everyone deaf. Everybody wins... until they start imposing DRM on sign language.
Now it really IS cheaper than iTunes. :)
Bollywood has a method of preventing their movies from being copies which is virutaly foolproof.
They produce mostly Hindi musicals.
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