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- Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music
- Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free musicYou have to love Tit for Tat battlesSpam is another great example, just on the flip side. The consumer is trying to keep something stopped whereas with Microsoft, they are trying to keep something stopped here. It's always more...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), FairUse4WM, DRM-Free Music, Microsoft Corp., greed, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music
- Just over a year ago when hacker "Viodentia" wrote FairUse4WM and broke Microsoft's Windows Media DRM scheme wide open, Microsoft responded with record urgency in a mere 3 days. But when Viodentia came back as "Divine Tao" and wrote a second major revision of FairUse4WM this July and broke...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Corp., Music, FairUse4WM, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- FairUse4WM breaks Microsoft DRM again
- A hacker "Divine Tao" has released a newer version of FairUse4WM that appears to have ripped Windows Media DRM wide open. It is interesting to note that "Divine Tao" is an anagram of the original author of FairUse4WM going by the name of "Viodentia". This latest release posted on Doom9...
- Tags: Vista, Security, News, Microsoft, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Microsoft fights "music of mass destruction"
- Most of the time when a serious flaw, such as a security hole, is discovered in Windows or another Microsoft product, users have to wait until the next monthly "Patch Tuesday" to get it fixed. Sometimes an exception is made to push a patch out earlier if the flaw is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., FairUse4WM
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM
- Engadget reports via link from TGDaily that a utility called FairUse4WM posted on Doom9.org has completely broken Windows Media DRM Digital Rights Management copy protection scheme and this spells big trouble for Napster and Yahoo unlimited music subscription services. The music subscription services allow you to download all the...
- Tags: WMA, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-08-29
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- News to know: Installing Leopard; Google; Green IT; BEA
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The Leopard has landed: The Mac OS X 10.5 upgrade process. Gallery: Installing Leopard. Robin Harris: Back up before Leopard upgrade! David Morgenstern: Mac OS X Leopard installation as a spiritual practice. Dana Gardner: I got bitten by the Apple Leopard blue screen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, BEA Systems Inc., Green IT, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Operating Systems, Data Centers, Desktops, Software, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- FairUse4WM breaks Microsoft DRM again
- FairUse4WM breaks Microsoft DRM againSo we need to stop buying DRM Music?Does that mean we should pirate everything, or only buy items that don't have any DRM like some of the Apple iTunes. Even though they are watermarked with sales info, they are still free of DRM.ROI is the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, ROI, Even Microsoft, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista
- It's true: The Zune is incompatible with VistaStores are not allowed to ship before ...... the January 30th date and the RTM bits are already available. What won't be available is the RTM PIDs unless you are a major OEM. You will be able to run Vista for...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSN Music, software
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- Microsoft's solution to having its DRM hacked: sue
- When it comes to keeping Microsoft's digital rights management technology from getting hacked -- a situation that recently provoked one of the fastest patches ever to be turned around by the Redmond-based company because of the stakes -- the company has already shown how its technological options are limited....
- Tags: DRM Watch, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- TiVo sits at nexus of DRM conundrum
- Recently, I've been hearing a lot about how movie studios and other providers of video content are significantly more senstive to the idea that the High Definition versions of their content might get pirated than they are to other lower resolution versions. I'm not sure what the implications of this...
- Tags: TiVo Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- Mozilla and Microsoft and how we measure security flaws
- I had the opportunity this week to speak with Window Snyder who just joined Mozilla as the lead security strategist. Snyder was most recently a principal founder and CTO at Matasano Security and was a senior security strategist for Microsoft heavily involved in their security development lifecycle. It's...
- Tags: Window Snyder, Mozilla Corp., exploit
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- 24 hours: The time it takes to crack the newest DRM from Microsoft or Apple
- It was only a week ago that hackers proved that Microsoft may be unable to win the game of cat-n-mouse that it's in with hackers who are determined to neutralize the software giant's digital rights management DRM technology (a technology with a nasty side effect of keeping people from using...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Amazon Unbox criticized for Internet chattiness (amongst other things)
- Last week, on the heels of Amazon's Unbox video download service launch, I did a little digging (didn't have to dig far) to find out what digital rights management platform it was relying on to make sure a the videos don't get pirated and b rentals (essentially downloads that...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Unbox
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Amazons brand new UnBox video download service relies on recently hacked Microsoft DRM
- Amazons brand new UnBox video download service relies on recently hacked Microsoft DRMno you can't watch it while it downloadsobviously. if it takes 4 hours by your estimates to download which seems generous, then if you start watching the 2 hour movie as it downloads, it will keep stopping. That's...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Better Idea, Local Movie store, Microsoft Corp., movie, digital-rights management, Unbox, DVD, video
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Amazon's brand new UnBox video download service relies on (recently hacked) Microsoft DRM
- It's now evidently clear to me why Mark Cuban was poo-pooing the idea of downloading videos from the Net. It was a timely pre-emptive strike aimed at undermining yesterday's launch of Amazon's Unbox video download service. To me though, it was a bit FUD-mongering (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). Amazon...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-08
- Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM counters
- Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM countersI was just about to email you thisGuess that is what I get for waiting a night.What a load of bunk that this. When it comes to personal data or another exploit that affects the customer, Microsoft takes their sweet time....
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Fairplay, patch management, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM counters
- Microsoft bypassed its normal monthly patch Tuesday cycle and delivered the fastest security patch ever for the FairUse4WM DRM stripper in a record 3 days from the day it became known. But FairUse4WM 1.2 has already countered the patch and is stripping DRM as fast as it ever did...
- Tags: WMA File, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-09-08
- With Microsoft sucked into a DRM cat-n-mouse deathmatch, is Zune doomed?
- While I was away on vacation, I caught George Ou's blog on how Microsoft's digital rights management DRM copy protection technology (currently, the lynch-pin to its PlaysForSure ecosystem, and undoubtedly a foundational piece to its new iPod-killing Zune initiative) had been rendered useless by developers of the FairUse4WM "utility." FairUse4M...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- 'Critical' patch for Office coming
- 'Critical' patch for Office comingNo religion necessary, just reduce your risks, and your costs.You need to get those OpenOffice pilots a humming. Microsoft is particularly vulnerable right now with the switchover to the new interface and file format. You need to be demanding native support for ODF, and of course...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Linux Program, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM
- FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM"pay per use" being forced on consumersIf you obey the rules, you are feeding the "new pricing models" they want you to buy into.DRM is only a piece of the "Content Restriction, Anulment, and Protection CRAP" puzzle that fits in nicely with the DMCA and...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, STREAMING Paradigm, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
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