p2pnet - rss feed: First HYMN, now iOpener
p2pnet.net News:- The entertainment industry’s blind refusal to accept reality - that p2p is here to stay - is great for innovation.
DRM software, and anything else dreamed up to stomp free-range p2p, will sooner or later be rendered null and void by people bent on exercising their fair rights - whether the RIAA and/or MPAA like it or not.
The continuing Apple FairPlay / hymn saga is proof of this, as amply demonstrated by the arrival of iOpener (nice one ; ) 0.1.
iOpener is described here as a hymn variant for Windows based on Jon Lech Johansen’s FairKeys and DeDRMS code.
Also on the way is Daeken’s pyTunes, “a fully integrated desktop media application, much like iTunes”.
It’s, “a logical next step from my work on phpTunes (here) and it’s coming along nicely,” says Daeken on his site here, adding:
“I just whipped up a script that decrypts and patches files downloaded from the music store _directly_. (there is _NO_ DRM on these files. this will NOT work with files bought using the iTunes official client).
August 31st, 2004 at 9:19 pm
As for the reasons of cracking DRM, I think people are doing it just to prove it can be done - the same sort of satisfaction one gets from solving a crossword puzzle.
Since these DRM’d music downloads offer less audio quality - at about the same price - as buying a physical CD, they are really a lot worse off than just ripping a high-bitrate - or even lossless - selection directly from a CD.