Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2
Just over a year ago when hacker “Viodentia” wrote FairUse4WM and broke Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM scheme wide open, Microsoft responded with record urgency in a mere 3 days. But when Viodentia came back as “Divine Tao” and wrote a second major revision of FairUse4WM this July and broke Microsoft’s Windows DRM scheme wide open again, Microsoft didn’t seem to be as concerned and spent their usual 3 months to patch the issue. As of the last patch Tuesday, the current version of FairUse4WM no longer works so the ball is in the hacker’s court again to break Microsoft’s latest DRM revision.
Services like Napster, and the recently shut Urge service all rely on Microsoft’s Windows Media protection scheme for their music subscription services. The instant you stop paying the monthly subscription fee, all the music that you’ve downloaded stop working. If you can just rip out the DRM protection in a matter of seconds for a hundred songs, then one could conceivably download the entire music library in a month’s time, rip out the DRM, and have all the music indefinitely.
FairUse4WM v2, DRM, Music, Windows Media, Viodentia, Music Sharing
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Pingback from 1My Ghillie » Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 says:October 28th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
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Pingback from 2Ghillie Suits » Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 says:October 28th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptJust over a year ago when hacker “Viodentia” wrote FairUse4WM and broke Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM scheme wide open, Microsoft responded with record urgency in a mere 3 days. But when Viodentia came back as “Divine Tao” and wrote a … [...]
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