Wednesday, March 9, 2005 |
17:06 - Oh, Napster. Will you ever learn?
http://marv.kordix.com/archives/000416.html
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Remember how quickly people figured out how to break Napster? Constrained only by the speed of real-time playback and re-encoding from a WinAmp output plugin, any Napster subscriber—or free trial user—could simply download as many songs as he wanted and convert them into DRM-less MP3s, and there was nothing Napster could do to stop him or even to determine that he was doing it.
Well, now even that one saving grace (the real-time playback step) is gone: a program called Virtuosa 5.0 allows users to convert DRM'd WMA files with nary a care as to their purported copy-protection. And now you can simply download all Napster's music for free.
What're ya waiting for?
(Via Bob, whose friend is now 15,000 free songs richer after his 2-week free Napster trial.)
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