DVD Jon Fairplays Apple
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| DRM-buster DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it's a big piece
| of fruit. He has reverse-engineered Apple's Fairplay and is starting to
| license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple's
| devices. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he's already done), Jon
| has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that
| want their content (music, movies, whatever) to play on Apple devices.
| This may not be good news for iTunes the store, but it could make the
| iPod even more popular.
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| Jon Lech Johansen became famous for hacking encrypted DVDs so they would
| play in Linux when he was 15, making him the target of criminal charges for
| which he was eventually acquitted...
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http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jon-fairplays-apple/
Some authorities have made it a crime to decrypt data that you actually paid
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