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Re: [News] DRM Gets Broken, Again

  • Subject: Re: [News] DRM Gets Broken, Again
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:01:13 +0100
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arachnid <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:08:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> How To Bypass The Zune's WiFi Sharing DRM
>> 
>> ,----[Quote ]
>> | We knew it would be done sooner or later, and now that we have the mod
>> | to use your Zune as a portable hard drive, a method to bypass the Zune's
>> | WiFi sharing DRM is finally here.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/how-to-bypass-the-zunes-wifi-sharing-drm-217042.php
>> http://tinyurl.com/y89rde
>> 
>> This didn't even take long. Implications: customer is not happy; record
>> label achieve nothing; media files become binary blobs that lose value.
>
> LOL!
>
>     "Then, rename whatever files - MP3s, movies, programs - to have the
>     extension ".jpg" in order to fool the Zune into thinking its an image"
>
> Will Microsoft *never* learn?
>

It does seem that they have screwed this up big time. I will wait for
the smoke from the opening FUD salvos to settle before I come to a fact
based opinion though.

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