FairUse4M DRM Cracked Again
Posted on 17. Jul, 2007 by Bill in Internet, Music, Technology
Microsoft keeps patching it and hackers keep hacking it. Microsoft's Digital Rights Management just got cracked again in the age old DRM battle (although I guess it's not really "age old" since this hasn't really been going on for that long). Word has it that the new version of FairUse4M (which is apparently really called FairUse4WM, v1.3 Fix 2 if you wanna get technical) even features a drag and drop interface to make things even more user friendly. No need for that XP and Windows Media Player 10 with that subscription music service - at least until they repatch it again which will probably happen by Thursday or something...
FairUse4WM works only on Windows Media DRM 10 and DRM 11 and at least according the board that states
"This program is ONLY designed and intended to enable fair-use rights to PURCHASED media.
- While I haven't been able to support license expiration/rental detection, please don't use this to abuse rental license
- This code does NOT allow import of KID/SID pairs to preclude its use for piracy"
So, in a nutshell the program will strip the DRM from any PlaysForSure file, whether you've purchased or just rented the song.
