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Microsoft update kills FairUse4WM
Enjoying those DRM-free music tracks you decrypted using FairUse4WM? Well, it looks like the fun is over, at least for now.Microsoft recently send out a Windows update that seems to block the Windows Media hacking tool.
We have every confidence that FairUse4WM's author, (a hacker going by the name of Viodentia) or someone else will come along and crack Microsoft's DRM scheme again. But it's anybody's guess how long that will take. When Viodentia released his first version of the program last year, Microsoft responded within a matter of days. It took another half a year before FairUse4WM was updated.
Does that mean it was harder to break the encryption scheme the second time around or just that Viodentia had better things to do? We don't really know. What we do know is that this means if you're downloading music from Napster, the Zune Marketplace, or another store using Windows Media DRM, you'll have to play that music on a Microsoft-approved device for now.
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Subscribe to commentsnizzy1115Oct 28th 2007 4:29PM
there are ways around this ;)
MichaelOct 28th 2007 10:00PM
That's it.
I'm crippling the Microsoft Updates on all of my machines permanently while I switch over to Ubuntu.
I'm going to find ways to hurt them for as long as I live. Might be David and Goliath, but if enough people hurt them, and push garbage on them, like they force it on us, maybe it'll have some effect.
FranklinOct 28th 2007 10:13PM
It appears to be "Security Update for Windows XP (KB933729)". So don't install that. I'd also recommend not installing Windows Media Player 11. Uninstall it if you already installed it, and just roll back to WMP10 which is much better and faster running anyway.
AppleOct 28th 2007 10:16PM
I dont even know why peeps let windows install anything on there machines!
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2290046
CoffeeDazeOct 28th 2007 10:22PM
Wow, gotta love the crappy Spymac spam links in your comment.
CoffeeDazeOct 28th 2007 10:22PM
By the way folks, don't click that spymac link because he gets paid for spamming.
EddieOct 29th 2007 11:19AM
Guys, I've been using SoundTaxi for about a year now and it works like a charm for tracks from Rhapsody. It isn't the most efficient decoding method (it basically just high speed dubs the file while you have the rights to play it) but it works and it's relatively inexpensive. It's paid for itself exponentially in all the music I've been able to play on every machine I own.
Fred ThompsonNov 1st 2007 2:04AM
Uh...you could have saved that money and "burned" to ISO then mounted and ripped from it.
FranklinOct 29th 2007 4:03PM
I believe SoundTaxi doesn't actually decrypt. It rips protected audio files as if they were burned to an audio CD. So there is a generation loss. As far as I know, the Rhapsody encryption has never been broken.
The encryption Microsoft and Apple use have both been successfully bypassed on various levels by hackers.
KatDec 2nd 2007 7:29AM
And Tunebite isn't bad either - yes, the high-speed dub.
Robert McGeorgeDec 7th 2007 8:20AM
I believe you can also do that by using "WHAT YOU HEAR" in ROXIO