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[News] Hollywood 'Hero' Breaks Apart DRM a Little More

  • Subject: [News] Hollywood 'Hero' Breaks Apart DRM a Little More
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:35:07 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux legend DVD Jon brings music sharing software to Facebook

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| Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This 
| Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content 
| Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. 
| Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual content 
| from the chains of whatever encryption is being used to tie it to the 
| original format. Perhaps most notoriously with his uncanny ability to quickly 
| break new DRM systems such as the Fairplay wrapper for iTunes music for 
| example.       
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2100.html


Related:

A Linux User's Perspective on the ITunes Store (and DRM in General)

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| What if tomorrow you went to Best Buy or Walmart or Sam Goody and purchased a 
| CD? What if, before you left the store, the salesman told you that although 
| the CD was in all other respects a standard CD, that you could only play it 
| if you owned a Pioneer or Sony stereo? Would that make any sense? Would it 
| make you a bit hesitant about buying music from that store again?    
| 
| Well, if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes Store, 
| 
| [...]
| 
| With content from the iTunes Store, however, users may find themselves a bit 
| stuck if they ever want to make the switch to a more open computing platform, 
| such as Linux. Because none of the DRM-restricted content from the iTunes 
| Store will play on Linux. And it's all because that's how Apple wants it, to 
| be honest, and not because of any technical limitation.    
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/324936/a_linux_users_perspective_on_the_itunes.html


Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights

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| [...]
| 
| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music 
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer 
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html

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