IP: Microsoft's digital rights management scheme reportedly cracked

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Subject: Microsoft DRM v.2 cracked
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:22:22 -0500
> From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring () inebraska com>
> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22354.html
>
> Declan, from The Register:
>
> An anonymous coder named 'Beale Screamer' claims to have broken the
> Version-2 Microsoft digital rights management (DRM) scheme, and has
> produced the source code and a DOS utility to un-protect .WMA audio
> files.
>
> The author's zipped file contains a lengthy description of the MS DRM
> weaknesses, a philosophical tract explaining why he thinks it necessary
> to crack, the source code, and the command-line utility.
>
> <snip>
>
> Hopefully this means that we can still listen to and share music as we
> please, without someone else (Big Brother) constantly looking over our
> shoulder.
>
> -Andy Ringsmuth
> andyring () inebraska com


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