New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 05 April 2004
PlayFair is an integrated utility that removes the DRM from AAC music files protected by Apple's FairPlay encryption. Information is limited, but the source code is on SourceForge.net and it appears to actually remove the encryption itself and not simply hijack the QuickTime audio stream as earlier methods did. The cracking operation can only be done on songs the user has already has valid licenses for and requires either an iPod or a windows computer for key recovery.
I think I will never see the point of DRM at all. As long as it is possible to listen to a soundfile, it is possible to record it. And with the technology these days, there is almost no quality loss. So why do they even try if it can be beaten so easily? Perhaps they just want to get us used to being controlled.