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Vista DRM Cracked by Security Researcher
An anonymous reader writes "Security researcher Alex Ionescu claims to have successfully bypassed the much discussed DRM protection in Windows Vista, called 'Protected Media Path' (PMP), which is designed to seriously degrade the playback quality of any video and audio running on systems with hardware components not explicitly approved by Microsoft. The bypass of the DRM protection was in turn performed by breaking the Driver Signing / PatchGuard protection in the new operating system. Alex is now quite nervous about what an army of lawyers backed by draconian copyright laws could do to him if he released the details, but he claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing his details about this at the moment though."
As fast as you can
If only we could fall into a woman's arms without falling into her hands
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
... but there is no space in the margin of this comment to write it.
"Vista DRM cracked by anybody with the desire to do so".
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
and then ask Network Solutions to suspend their domain. It works on GoDaddy domains.
I called it a mighty Sperm Whale, she called it Finding Nemo.
Just release it, the deluge of bad PR will suck the moneyline away from the lawyers long enough for you to jet to Aruba or somewhere.
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Excellent news.
What with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray being cracked already, and now this, combined with all the hate and general unity by consumers against the big movie and music industry, how much more signal do they need that DRM is pointless and unwanted and to finally stop trying to force it on us?
The DMCA doesn't have arms, it has tentacles. Horrible, oozing, pus-filled tentacles.
Someone in America cracked this first.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Could not be more redundant.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
(Also, that "sentence" I quoted is a fragment. And you didn't capitalize "i" in the previous sentence, which is actually a run-on.)
You'd have to put a pro-linux spin on this before the EFF will give a damn.
Merely being anti-microsoft and anti-drm isn't enough to get the linux and open-source fanboys fired up enough to get the EFF to do anything.
You really think you can find that many Pro-Bono Attorneys?
I mean sure, The Joshua Tree was great, but they've been going downhill for awhile....
There needs to be an installer to bypass the PMP and DRM functionality in Vista so that every user can have the right to CHOOSE!
Relocating to San Francisco / Palo Alto... Hire me?
From Alex's website -
"He is currently studying at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and is in his first year of obtaining a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Student Ambassador and is representing the company on campus as a Technical Rep."
Uh oh.
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"It's time to un-PMP ze audio"
Didn't read TFA, but when I saw this in the blurb:
draconian copyright laws
...I just assumed it was us.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Yeah, ever since he broke up with Cher.
US law is like Man Law - a universal truth with a reach that transcends all borders.
*does a jig with two thumbs up*
*stabs self in eyes with thumbs*
JAZZ HANDS!
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON