OSLO, Norway - A young Norwegian who became a global hacker hero by writing and distributing a program to crack DVD security codes appears to have struck again, this time against Apple Computer's iTunes online music service.
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Last Friday, a new security-cracking program called QTFairUse was posted -- along with the message "So sue me" -- on a website for which Johansen is listed as the registrant, or owner.
The new program circumvents iTunes' anticopying program, MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding, by legally opening and playing a protected music file in QuickTime, but then, essentially, draining the unprotected music data into a new and parallel file.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61387,00.htmlHere's his blog
http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/and here's the crack (I haven't tried it yet, ymmv)
http://www.nanocrew.net/software/QTFairUse.tar.gz