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Adobe's ADEPT DRM Broken
An anonymous reader writes "I love cabbages has reverse-engineered Adobe's ADEPT DRM (e-book protection). On February 18, I love cabbages released code that decrypts EPUB e-books protected with ADEPT and followed that up on February 25, with code that decrypts PDF e-books protected with ADEPT. On March 4, I love cabbages was given a DMCA take down notice. And there's plenty of evidence he got it right. DS:TNG (Dmitry Sklyarov: The Next Generation)?"
As of right now, GP is 0 and parent is +5.
Troll and Flamebait do not mean "we disagree with your argument". What exactly was it about the GP that was said in a trollish or flamebaiting manner other than mirroring, with only the briefest emphasis, a phrase that was part of the (highly modded!) comment he replied to?
Parent wasn't all that insightful either. GP's argument would hold for physical goods just as much as copyable goods. Copyright isn't involved.
We really need to stop abusing the moderation system as a way to suppress dissent.
Exactly. And in the end, how do you actually listen to that music?
By giving the CPU a list of commands to decode it, and a key. Who controls the CPU? Me. (Not all of them! Yet? ^^)
So you (GP) just gave me the key and the decrypting code. TYVM.
I can extract it, and make a small tool of it. Put in on the whole net (a la Streisand effect). And you're done.
Do you (P) know what's the most funny thing?
They act as if we oooh-soo-want their "precious" music.
I can't remember the last time I listened to "charts" music.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.