Last week a programmer named Jon Johansen aka DVD Jonhacked the digital rights management (DRM) scheme of iTunes and released a program called PyMusique that allowed you to still buy music from iTunes but minus the DRM protetction scheme. Apple quickly patched the problem and hacker-themed blogs around the world sighed. But they're back.
Today news.com has broken the story that the same gang has cracked the code again. Acciordin to ARS Technica:
"Apparently it took little time to break the iTunes 4.7 encryption to emulate the client, thus PyMusique 0.4 already works with iTMS, but without the DRM. However, the authors this time are saying that they will only maintain a Linux release, claiming that the entire point of PyMusique was to bring iTMS to Linux. While the goal may appear noble, it is, nonetheless, against the law." Source: ARS Technica via news.com
Apple just released a security update that patches this hole. Additionally, Apple is mandating that all OSX users update to iTunes 4.7.1 - - - and 4.7.1 breaks hymm.
However, Apple doesn't update the DRM level for previous purchases so Fairplay 1 remains Fairplay 1 - just Command-I the song file and the DRM level is revealed.
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