copy protection for the weak-spermed

[rone]

I recently heard that Jon "DeCSS" Johansen circumvented iTunes' anti-copying program (in what i find a fairly obvious manner). But the story's from around Thanksgiving. How is it that i didn't hear about this until this week? All of you nerds on my friends list have failed me.

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[jwgh]

I want my files to DO SOMETHING! I shouldn't need SOFTWARE to make my files MAKE NOISE!

Good old journalism.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

They're right, even if they did express it in a clumsy fashion: the data you get from QTFairUse is raw AAC, not in any container (OGG, QuickTime, whatever) that player apps recognise -- so additional, quite possibly not-yet-available, software is required to make use of the results.

The VLC stuff is more interesting anyway. That's not a "crack" in the sense of providing a completely unencumbered copy, but it does allow playback of protected files on unsupported systems. Which strikes me as being the better, more easily-defendable-without-being-Andrew-Orlowski thing.