Connecting the dots: Apple, Real, iPods, and Digital Rights Management
Monday, 09 August 2004
Real recently made their audio format playable on iPods by hacking FairPlay, the digital rights management scheme used by iTunes.
There is a long history of hacking iTunes. CodeWeavers recently got it to work on Linux, and the Hymn project allows you to completely remove the protections on iTunes audio files.
How this plays out legally should be intersting. As Cory Doctorow points out DRM schemes are not only bad for business, they just don't work. It's not possible for someone to use the media they purchased without giving them the key to decrypt the media.
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