Apple's Fairplay-Not So Fair

When Apple announced that they would be selling DRM-free music on the iTune store, everyone thought that this would herald a new thinking on DRM. It turns out that their proprietary anti-piracy measures are even worse. Apple uses a technology known as Fairplay to limit what people can do with downloads. Fairplay can be circumvented by burning tracks to a CD and then converting them to another format. It was found that Fairplay is embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them. It is only a matter of time before a utility program was produced which could strip out the identifying information. Apple needed to explain why the data was present.

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Anonymous said…
sounds like another invasion of privacy to me...
June 8, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Anonymous said…
Of course this has already been hacked. Nothing that we physically have in digital form will ever be safe. In ten years, count on subscription based music and movies being the only form.
June 18, 2007 at 12:27 PM
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