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FC: Microsoft's digital rights management scheme reportedly cracked

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Subject: Microsoft DRM v.2 cracked Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:22:22 -0500 From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring@inebraska.com> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22354.html

Declan, from The Register:

An anonymous coder named 'Beale Screamer' claims to have broken the Version-2 Microsoft digital rights management (DRM) scheme, and has produced the source code and a DOS utility to un-protect .WMA audio files.

The author's zipped file contains a lengthy description of the MS DRM weaknesses, a philosophical tract explaining why he thinks it necessary to crack, the source code, and the command-line utility.

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Hopefully this means that we can still listen to and share music as we please, without someone else (Big Brother) constantly looking over our shoulder.

-Andy Ringsmuth andyring@inebraska.com

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