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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...""

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  1. what compression! by hankaholic · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Users have found a way to skirt copy protection [...] potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free...

    Wow, I don't think I've ever fit more than around two hundred songs on a CD.

    How will skirting copy protection allow me to make CDs that hold hundreds of thousands?
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    Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
  2. Re:Old News by TrollBridge · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Until you can get people to stop breaking the law voluntarily (via fair pricing and good business practices)"

    Yes, heaven forbid we ask people to stop breaking the law because it's WRONG.

    But I forgot, in today's society of instant gratification and moral relativism, anything can be justified by our wants.

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    There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
  3. Really? by mwood · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I want to see a CD with 100,000 songs on it. They must be fairly *short* songs....

  4. Holy cow - magic compression by mobilemic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free...

    Not only have they cracked the copy protection, but they also invented a new super powerful compression algorithm. Or how do they manage to fit hundreds of thousands of songs onto a CD?