Filed under: Security, Microsoft
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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