Tag: 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 ...

Several months after Microsoft dropped its lawsuit against the developer of FairUse4WM because it couldn't find him or her, the utility has been updated to version 1.3 Fix-2. FairUse4WM strips DRM from Windows Media Audio files purchased online. The latest version can remove DRM protection from songs downloaded from Microsoft's Zune Marketplace, meaning you can play your legally purchased music on ...

It looks like Microsoft has dropped its lawsuit against the elusive creator of FairUse4WM because, well... because he's elusive. They couldn't manage to track him down. FairUse4Wm is a program created to strip DRM from PlaysForSure Windows Media files. It was created by a hacker known to the world only as Viodentia. Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Viodentia for copyright infringement, but since ...

A code hacker whose handle is 'viodentia' has been officially sued by Microsoft for cracking its digital rights management (DRM) software. FairUse4WM is the program in question, which cracks the DRM on music downloaded from music subscription services. Engadget's interview with "viodentia" shed light on the developers tactics and how he or she managed to crack Microsoft's code. Microsoft is ...

On the heels of FairUse4WM being released, QTFairUse6 was posted on the Hymn site, which is an app that will crack Apple iTunes DRM, in a similar way to FairUse4WM. According to InformationWeek, the QT version requires knowledge of the Python language, and isn't quite so easy to use as the WM one. Still, all the news of these extremely innovative tools illustrate the fact that people want their ...

Critics of online music stores like the new Napster and Yahoo! Music Unlimited say by giving them you're money you're really just renting your music, since if you stop paying their fees, you lost the ability to listen to the tracks you've downloaded. But if the makers of FairUse4M have anything to say about it, that's no longer the case. Engadget has the scoop on this new, probably-illegal ...