MySpace download hack
p2pnet.net News:- MySpace has joined ClearChannel and Yahoo on a growing list of companies operating vulnerable Net servers.
“All three of these services host music files that can be downloaded anonymously,” Chapin Information Services’ Robert Chapin tells p2pnet.
The problem with Yahoo Music was uncovered last year, but Yahoo didn’t seem even vaguely interested. And nor was ClearChannelMusic, “more recently identified as making available new and unreleased albums,” he states.
Then, about six weeks ago, along came Andrew Heinlein with MySpace MP3 Gopher, a 100% free stand-alone which allows you to download MP3 files from MySpace, “even if the downloading of said song is disabled”.
“Since then, MySpace has been upgrading its music website, about once each week, in efforts to neutralize Andrew’s program,” says Chapin. But, “Alas, they haven’t done anything that would materially prevent a user from saving the MP3 data transmitted by their website. Andrew has ably released a new program each time MySpace changed their website.”
The latest Heinlein revision, v3.0.1, involves the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), says Chapin, going on:
“MySpace Music now uses RTMP to deliver raw MP3 data. CIS has confirmed the program does not use passwords, encryption, or Digital Rights Management (DRM).”
MySpace MP3 Gopher may be upsetting the MySpace Murdoch Minions, but since launching it, Heinlein has received several job offers.
Meanwhile, MySpace responded to his most recent blog and profile pages by by deleting them, “AGAIN,” he says, adding, “MySpace has disabled my MySpace login (4 times now.)”
His new account is here ——- for the moment ;p
Download ZIP Archive: MySpaceMp3Gopher.zip (118 kb) here, or MySpaceMp3Gopher.exe (140 kb) here.
If you’re on MySpace, you might also want to check out Heinlein’s MySpace Informant which lets you know when people are active on your MySpace account.
Meanwhile, there’s been no official reaction on MySpace, and the same applies to ClearChannel and, still, Yahoo.
(Cheers, Robert)
Also See:
Yahoo didn’t seem interested – Yahoo Music Unlimited hack, May 30, 2006
illegal actions of SWIFT – Bush SWIFT piracy draws fire, June 29, 2006
p2pnet newsfeeds for your site.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss
Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
October 17th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
MySpace mp3′s are only 96kHz/22050Hz, so they’re not exactly CD quality. A damn shame, that – they used to be 192kbit/44100Hz. However the program definitely works as advertised.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:44 am
96kHz/22050Hz afaik means they are mpeg 2 layer 3 files instead of mpeg 1 layer 3 files (mp3).
Afaik fraunhofer says that they are equal to (or even better) then those mpeg1 files with 192kbit/44100Hz.
And of course the well known fact remains that 192kbit/44100Hz Ogg Vorbis files are even better mp3!
–
kdsde
December 8th, 2006 at 2:57 am
hello haw are you
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
[...] ran his series on YouTube but, Robert Chapin tells p2pnet, “They deleted EVERYTHING including his video [...]
September 6th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Downloading myspace music will never be stopped. If you look at http://www.myspacegrab.com/. It does exactly what myspace doesn’t want you to do!