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October 2, 2006

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“DVD Jon” reverse engineers FairPlay

Posted Oct. 2, ’06, 1:10 PM PT by Scott Silverman
Category | Music

DvdjonA man known largely as “DVD Jon” in the technology world—due to his cracking of CSS encryption at age 15—has performed yet another amazing feat: the reverse engineering of Apple’s FairPlay DRM technology. He does not, however, plan to use this knowledge to break DRM on video and audio files everywhere, but rather (like a true entrepreneur) wants to replicate it.

Once Jon has the technology replicated he plans to license it out to companies wishing to produce content playable on the iPod and the soon-to-be iTV. Perhaps more available content will help Apple sell more hardware?

While replicating Apple’s DRM certainly seems like suicide to me, Jon argues he is not stripping files of DRM, but rather adding it to them. We’ll see what happens shortly, I’m sure.

[via Slashdot]


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