******** Subject: Microsoft DRM v.2 cracked Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:22:22 -0500 From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyringat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22354.html Declan, from The Register: An anonymous coder named 'Beale Screamer' claims to have broken the Version-2 Microsoft digital rights management (DRM) scheme, and has produced the source code and a DOS utility to un-protect .WMA audio files. The author's zipped file contains a lengthy description of the MS DRM weaknesses, a philosophical tract explaining why he thinks it necessary to crack, the source code, and the command-line utility. <snip> Hopefully this means that we can still listen to and share music as we please, without someone else (Big Brother) constantly looking over our shoulder. -Andy Ringsmuth andyringat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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