{"id":2984,"date":"2005-04-14T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/04\/14\/napsters-wma-drm-cracked\/"},"modified":"2005-04-14T18:53:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T22:53:47","slug":"napsters-wma-drm-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/04\/14\/napsters-wma-drm-cracked\/","title":{"rendered":"Napster&#8217;s WMA DRM Cracked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1074'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/08\/25#a1889\">Update, 10\/07\/2006: Those interested in this story might also be interested in the release of FairUse4WM, a Janus DRM evasion tool.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Napster-To-Go&#8217;s launch about two months ago, word spread<br \/>\nthat Napster&#8217;s DRM had been &#8220;hacked.&#8221; Nothing of the sort had happened,<br \/>\nbut that didn&#8217;t stop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/pc\/arch\/2005_02_17.shtml#012381\">Steve Jobs from pushing the rumor forward<\/a>. Really, someone had posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kordix.com\/marv\/archives\/000400.html\">instructions<\/a><br \/>\non how to take the unencrypted output from the sound card and turn it into<br \/>\na new wav file.&nbsp; The spin got so out of control that Napster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napster.com\/winamp_memo.html\">responded publicly<\/a> on its website. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/neowin.net\/comments.php?id=27924&amp;category=main\">Neowin<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/#041505napster\">Digital Music News<\/a>)<br \/>\nreports that the DRM itself may be compromised now.&nbsp; The details<br \/>\nare sketchy, and the article&#8217;s suggestion that the crack is built on<br \/>\nthe 2001 Beale Screamer code makes me a little suspicious.&nbsp; Slyck has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slyck.com\/news.php?story=747\">a vague article up as well<\/a>.&nbsp; Check out coder Cody Brocious&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daeken.com\/\">blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daeken.com\/2005\/04\/08\/napster\/\">for<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daeken.com\/2005\/04\/13\/musik-release\/\">more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update, 10\/07\/2006: Those interested in this story might also be interested in the release of FairUse4WM, a Janus DRM evasion tool. Shortly after Napster-To-Go&#8217;s launch about two months ago, word spread that Napster&#8217;s DRM had been &#8220;hacked.&#8221; Nothing of the sort had happened, but that didn&#8217;t stop Steve Jobs from pushing the rumor forward. Really, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}