Playfair was originally hosted at the US Sourceforge, but Apple's briefs invoked the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and) and forced the takedown of the program.

However, since hosting the project in India was not illegal, the creator of Playfair approached Sarovar and got backing from two Indian companies.

India was not far enough away for Job's mob who have targeted the hosting ISP and sponsors of Sarovar.

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yeah I read this story last week. I think it's funny because you can still get playfair all over the net. here's the article about it and it includes links
http://p2pnet.net/story/1299

You can do something similar without a program, that is if you use iTunes. (I got a hell of a lot of those code-caps from friends.)

A) Put everything you want into a playlist and burn it. B) Use a program with mp3-ripping capabilites (I used MusicMatch Jukebox) and convert those tracks to .mp3's.

I didn't think this would be possible, and I laughed my ass off when I pulled it off. Apparently iTunes's 'protected' format for music isn't as smart as I thought it was...

Time for www.boycott-apple.com ???

You can just rip it again with itunes, even without removing it from the cd drive.

Its just the carrot the RIAA needed to think that things are protected.

But why would anyone want to actually buy any of these songs from iTunes? The quality sucks. Hell, I bet I could make them sound better ripping from a cd using the old Blade MP3 encoder at it's worst settings. Glad I got'em free with the bottle caps.

only one coment about this artical. it doesnt surprise me one bit

iTunes DRM is of course completly ineffective, because of the burn-and-rip described above. No audio DRM system can possibly be effective without a watermark anyway, as its trivial to wire the speakers to a line in port. Worst case, it needs a balencing transformer pair, and there would be instructions on the net for wiring two of those in. Even with watermarks, all existing systems can be defeated by a moderately skilled DSP user, and once broken once anything would travel all over the p2p networks in hours. Even ignoring all that, DRM is *still* usless as long as CDs are available.

Apples DRM system is not sold to customers, its to encourage the labels. To do so, it must provide the same illusion of security as MS WMDRM. So they cant allow a crack, as it would seem to the labels Apple wan't protecting their copyrights properly.

I use an XM Midi card for making music but I like to listen to 5.1 DVD Audio so I also have a 5.1 Soundblaster card, to keep things simple in terms of the number of loudspeakers the digital output of the XG card goes in to the 2 pin digital CD input of the soundblaster (which, unlike external digital inputs isn't fussy about copy protection flags - how could it be!)

Of course the XG card also quite happily plays digital audio files and the soundblaster is quite happy to record them!

All it takes is a very few quids/bucks and a couple of extra mouse clicks - even works with streamed audio too - DRM is a pain in the but and so transparent all it does is piss people off.

When there are rights to copy to an MP3 player just three times and you only have a tiny 128MB portable you soon run out of allowable copies unless you pay again, not exactly good customer relations!

sorry, of course I meant a wma player!!!!