Archive for the 'Apple’s Gonna Sue you' Category
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Kazakhstan Looses Sense of Humor
Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.
“Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his “Da Ali G Show”, has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.”
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
PyMusique Strikes Back
Not too long after PyMusique was released, Apple “fixed” the hole by requiring customers to use iTunes 4.7. It’s been 3 days and DVD Jon has already reversed engineered the 4.7 encryption and has updated PyMusique to work again. How long till Apple fixes it again?
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
iTunes Store Songs Sans DRM
DVD Jon iTunes Jon has struck Apple again (mirror here), this time it’s called Pymusique. Basically it lets you buy songs (or redownload already purchased songs) from the iTunes store without any DRM or restrictions. While it breaks Apple’s terms of service, it probably is legal, but you can be sure Apple’s gonna fix this hole soon.
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Friday, January 7th, 2005
Is this the Headless iMac?
Check out these pic’s before Apple Legal does! Is this the much rumored headless iMac? Or maybe a whole seperate product? Anyone have any juicy info????
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
iPodDownload 1.1
Remember iPod Download? The iTunes plugin that let you freely transfer songs to an iPod directly from within iTunes? Apple sent them a cease and desist and rendered version 1 incompatable with the most recent version of iTunes. A fixed version (1.1) has leaked out and you can download it here.
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Friday, September 17th, 2004
Grab it while you can!
Wildbits created an iTunes plug-in called iPodDownload that lets you freely transfer songs from your iPod directly in iTunes without any secondary application. The problem though, is to make an iTunes plug-in you have to use Apple’s SDK, and that means your plug-in, when compiled, contains Apple’s code in it. So Apple legal got his site shut down until he removed the file. Luckily for you this guy is mirroring it. Grab it while you can.
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
DVD Jon Goes APE
DVD Jon has decrypted the key that Apple’s Airport Express uses to stream audio. According to him:
“The stream is encrypted with AES and the AES key is encrypted with RSA. “
He has posted the full key and a windows app for streaming on his blog.
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Thursday, July 8th, 2004
DVD Jon Strikes Again
Uber-coder Jon Lech Johansen (A.K.A. DVD Jon) has come up with yet another fuck you to Apple’s FairPlay DRM: FairKeys
“I’ve released FairKeys, a tool which lets you retrieve your FairPlay keys from Apple’s servers.
Instructions for MacOS X users:
1. Install MonoFramework-1.0.dmg
2. Start Terminal.app
3. curl -O ‘http://nanocrew.net/software/FairKeys/FairKeys-0.2.tar.gz’
4. tar -zxvf FairKeys-0.2.tar.gz ; cd FairKeys-0.2
5. mcs -target:exe -out:”FairKeys.exe” -r:ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll -r:System.Web.dll FairKeys.cs AssemblyInfo.cs FairStore.cs
6. mono FairKeys.exe “
To be honest I have no idea what the hell one would do with the keys, but it’s still early and I have not thought much into it.
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2004
HYMN – Hear Your Music Anywhere
PlayFair has returned and works with the newest iTunes! The name and host have changed, but it still decrypts music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. One big thing has changed though, the Apple ID used to purchase the song is still embedded in the file to discourage people from sharing their decrypted songs.
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Monday, April 26th, 2004
FairTunes fills in where PlayFair Left Off
Apple put the smack down on PlayFair twice, so grab FairTunes while you can.
“Convert any authorized protected iTunes song into an unprotected, uncompressed file.
Supports AIFF, Wave, QuickTime, System 7 Sound, MuLaw, and AVI file creation.
Easy to use – no complicated setup needed.
Built for Mac OS X”
And unlike PlayFair no PC or iPod is needed. Download and share it before they get DMCA’ed to death.
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