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October 25th, 2006, 09:24 AM
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| FairPlay DRM reverse engineered
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October 25th, 2006, 12:53 PM
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| Interesting. Assuming he's not drowned in a sea of lawyers, this means other companies will be able to make players that can play current iTMS downloads. However, Apple can always change the system iTunes uses for future downloads. Also, if any other store wants to offer iPod-compatible music, chances are they'll be burned the next time Apple issues a firmware update. Really, there's only so much a company can do to force compatibility if Apple doesn't want them to.
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October 25th, 2006, 01:13 PM
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| I don't know how this kind of stuff in a purely legal sense, but I wonder if Apple can go after him if this guy's customers use the app and propagate de-encoded AACs throughout the internet. I mean it's one thing to de-encode it for personal use, but let's get real, this basically opens the door for more mass piracy. And if Apple can show that any given AAC that was de-encoded can be traced back to someone and then to this app, maybe they can get him that way. Doubt it though.
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#4
October 25th, 2006, 01:31 PM
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| He's selling a program to encrypt AACs not decrypt them. Decryption software already exists for free. Still I don't know how it can be legal since I thought Apple owns the rights to FairPlay.
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October 25th, 2006, 01:36 PM
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| it would go to court under a monopoly ruling, i would have thought. apple could be seen as having/wanting a monopoly on digital music. plus this only means that rivals can have a go at ipods market share. ipods don't sell becuase of FairPlay drm over WMA drm. they sell because they're iPods.
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October 25th, 2006, 05:48 PM
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| Probably same article, but also here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/...le_itunes_dc_2 It's going to be a very interesting debate as we go forward!
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October 26th, 2006, 10:07 PM
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| Seems to me that's a dangerous game they're playing. Apple's got 10 billion dollars sitting in the bank these and I'm guessing they'll spend a few of those to bury this company should it come to it.
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October 27th, 2006, 11:09 AM
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| It's about time someone did this. Forcing purchasers to use particular software or hardware is never going to be a good thing. If the iPod is so great (Yes, I own one as I think currently it is the best player available) why are Apple so afraid of competition ? I will not buy music from the iTunes store as I do not want to be forced to buy another iPod to play it when this one fails if there are better players avaiable. As for the piracy issue that is a non starter, it is already easy to pirate Fairplay protected files as iTunes allows you to write them to CD and then re-import them into the same software as unprotected files whihc kind of defeats the object. I'm sure if it was a certain company based in Redmond involved there would not be so much tolerance of such restrictive practices. |
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