Saturday, November 22, 2003

The Register

DVD Jon Unlocks iTunes' Locked Music: "Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software, has turned his attention to Apple's locked music format."

it appears jon has created a stream ripper / audio hijack like program that while saving removes all drm header info. for now the program is not entirely useful becase resulting files can't be played without a valid header, but as a proof of concept it is interesting. the theory, i guess, is that one could build such an application that writes the new unprotected file with out a header containing drm and instead replaces it with a valid header without drm.

seems to not bode well for the idea of locked files of anykind let alone music!!!

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