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Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon for his authorship of the DeCSS decryption software, has turned his attention to Apple's locked music format. While he hasn't decrypted the DRM which Apple uses, he has produced a simple Windows command line utility which will install a DLL which dumps the output of a QuickTime stream to a file. The short C program is called "QuickTime for Windows AAC memory dumper". (To compile the program requires MinGW and MSYS from here.) An application called MyTunes already performs much the same function, but Johansen's is open source. He therefore unveils the DLL entry point, and the exit hole. So let the fun and games commence This is isn't, as we foolishly thought earlier, the analog hole: the software isn't capturing the output of the sound card - it's intercepting QuickTime playback before it has a chanced to be 0wn3d (or however you spell it), by Hollywood. But it sets up an interesting confrontation. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34141.html Why break the DRM when it's easier to skip it?! -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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