[FYI] 'Free' Costello CD seeds DRM, MS Media Player 9

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html

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'Free' Costello CD seeds DRM, MS Media Player 9  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 22/09/2002 at 15:55 GMT  

Hardware supporting Microsoft's Secure Audio Path DRM technology 
seems to have arrived, albeit somewhat bashfully, and as if that 
wasn't enough, today the UK Sunday Times newspaper unleashed a neat 
little trojan that'll upgrade you to Windows Media Player 9, complete 
with all those lovely facilities to protect 'your' music. If you're 
not careful, that is.  

To remind you, Secure Audio Path is a Digital Rights Management 
technology designed to interpose its body between encrypted digital 
music and the output device, thus stopping DMCA-breaching criminals 
diverting the stream to an unauthorised application. In order to work 
it needs compliant, authenticated output devices, and by a miraculous 
coincidence we've just been tipped off about one of the first cuckoos 
to go public - Creative Labs.  

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