Napster, Macrovision and DRM
p2pnet.net News:- The World Press Corpse is still repeating Macrovision’s claim that it’s come up with 97% effective copy ‘protection’ as if it’s credible news.
Meanwhile, "Now you can fill and refill your compatible MP3 Player without paying 99¢ per track," says the Napster II site.
"Get all the music you want in a whole new way."
It got that right.becase as another ‘copy protection’ story being picked up around the world is that technically minded music lovers had little trouble hacking Napster II’s heavily hyped music rental service.
And it happened “just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free,” says New Zealand’s Stuff.
Here’s a repeat of an item we ran on Tuesday.
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Napster who?
Finally! A use for Napster II!
“In my daily trolling of the world wide web this morning I ran across a very interesting blog entry,” writes JiMiThInG on P2Pforums.
“This blog contains detailed instructions of a new free Napster music give away, only this time Napster doesn’t know about it. With a few easy tricks one can turn Napsters fourteen day free trial into 20,160 minutes of free music, otherwise known as 252 80 minute CD-R’s.”
So how does free-Napster work?
“First download and install Napster. (Wow never thought we would be doing that again, eh?) Second fire up Winamp. Then download and install a winamp plug in called Output Stacker. Next, Open Winamp Options->Plug-ins->Output->Dietmar’s Output Stacker->Configure
Add out_ds.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
Add out_disk.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
Select out_disk.dll in the Output Stacker->Configure
Set the output directory and output file mode to Force WAV file
Exit preferences
“Finally, download the Napster WMA’s, and press play. As winamp plays each file it will be converted into a .wav file. If you don’t know how to burn that into a standard music CD, unplug your PC and call AOL customer support right away.
“It seems as if the industry may have finally found a way to attract some die hard P2P fans to one of their pay services.
“Granted I don’t see or stay lasting any longer then 14 days, and if we try this at all it will be for the novelty as much as anything. P2PForums would like to thank warlock171 from CDFreaks.com for discovering this interesting little hack’.”
Nice one, JiMiThInG ; )
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See:-
credible news - RipGuard ‘copy blocker’ reloaded, p2pnet, February 16, 2005
high-profile launch – Users bypass copy protection on portable Napster, Stuff, February 16, 2005
Napster who? – Napster hack = free downloads, p2pnet, February 15, 2005
February 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
http://www.dago.pmp.com.pl/messer/index-old.html
The instructions above force Winamp to record the .wav out. This app does the same for ANY audio you can play on your PC, with ANY player. Sure it’s an old app, but think about it, ANY audio file. Get it while it’s still there…
February 17th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
Courtesy of Napster II I now have another couple hundred free songs to dump on my MP3 player.
February 18th, 2005 at 2:31 am
Thanks for the info…but just how do we get dietmar’s output stacker?
I went to winamp’s website and searched, but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
Did they already remove it, perhaps?
February 18th, 2005 at 8:43 am
If you have a full Duplex Soundcard(audigy 2) you can do it with Audacity. Go to audacity.sourceforge.net to get it.