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Napster Has Been Cracked 616

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:00AM from the who-thought-it-would-take-this-long dept.

Sabathius writes "Users have found a way to skirt copy protection on Napster Inc's portable music subscription service just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free...""

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Man... (Score:5, Funny)

by Curtman ( 556920 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:02AM (#11698248)

Never saw that one coming.

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Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:1, Funny)

by untaken_name ( 660789 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:02AM (#11698250) Homepage

...if you can fit "hundreds of thousands" onto one CD.
Seriously, though, who didn't see this coming?

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Copied Music (Score:5, Funny)

by JohnHegarty ( 453016 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:02AM (#11698252) Homepage

Oh No...

Now the name Napster will be tried to illegally copied music... and after all the paid of the good number of that company...

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Sounds like it's time for the RIAA... (Score:3, Funny)

by spezz ( 150943 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:02AM (#11698258)

...to close the barn door

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Free? (Score:4, Funny)

by danormsby ( 529805 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:03AM (#11698261) Homepage

I thought all music downloaded from the internet was free?

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That Napster business plan in full (Score:4, Funny)

by Deep Fried Geekboy ( 807607 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:05AM (#11698284)

1. Launch DRM'd subscription-based music service. Nobody joins it but RIAA backs your model and you get lots of good music.
2. Wait for DRM to be cracked, in, ooh, three or four days.
3. Your subscriptions suddenly rocket
4. PROFIT!

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Re:Man... (Score:4, Funny)

by yogikoudou ( 806237 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:06AM (#11698287) Homepage

Well I guess they were using SHA-1 [slashdot.org] ...

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Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:5, Funny)

by avgjoe62 ( 558860 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:08AM (#11698307)

Seriously, though, who didn't see this coming?

Uhm... Napster?
So much for the business model...

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Re:Whatever (Score:5, Funny)

by Curtman ( 556920 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:10AM (#11698315)

so long as you're playing via /dev/dsp you can always grab the digital signal

Quiet you. If my next soundblaster comes with some new fangled Macrovision, it'll be your fault.

Or would that be Macroaudio?

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Well, its come full circle. (Score:4, Funny)

by GatesGhost ( 850912 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:13AM (#11698330)

napster just keeps finding a way to provide free music. lol. talk about irony.

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Broadcast flag has been cracked (Score:5, Funny)

by RandoX ( 828285 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:13AM (#11698334)

Apparently, users have been sitting in front of their TV with a camcorder...

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Napster v.s. iTunes (Score:5, Funny)

by thenextpresident ( 559469 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:16AM (#11698349) Homepage Journal

Hehe
iTunes: $0.99 per song.
Napster: 14 day free trial: All the songs you can download and copy to MP3.

Hrm... =)

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Re:Old News (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:16AM (#11698352)

If you let users actually hear (music) or see (movies/tv) the content, there will always be a way to get it.
Not if you build the copy protection into the user...

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Napster (and everything else). (Score:2, Funny)

by spankers ( 456500 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:16AM (#11698353)

Golly... you mean it's possible to record the output of the soundcard. Wow... everything's cracked then.. including /. editors for posting this story.

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And Apple... (Score:4, Funny)

by gmajor ( 514414 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:24AM (#11698392) Journal

Steve Jobs reportedly e-mailed record company executives a link to a blog detailing the hack. He apparently wants to paint Napster as an insecure service, no different from its original form all the while portraying iTunes as secure (PlayFair anyone?)

Ruthless business tactics IMHO, dare I say reminiscent of the Redmond giant. I wish he'd let consumers decide which service is better rather than try to sabatoge Napster with his industry connections and FUD.

(Disclaimer: Heard this as a rumor - I wasn't exactly CCed on Steve's e-mail - but I had no reason to disbelieve the source).

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Re:Aw Crap (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:25AM (#11698403)

You only got 8 gigs in 14 days??

I'm gonna have to ask you for your badge and keyboard. You're suspended!

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Re:Sounds like it's time for the RIAA... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:28AM (#11698417)

First the RIAA has to find the barn or learn what a barn looks like......

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Again? Damnit! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:29AM (#11698424)

Every time I find a way to beat the system, Slashdot comes out with "look how people are beating the system! It's easy! N00bs take notice! Foolproof step-by-step instructions!" and then everyone jumps on the bandwagon, the system gets changed, and you ruin it for me. Way to go.
Fuckers.

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Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:31AM (#11698433)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Hey, what do you expect... (Score:5, Funny)

by skids ( 119237 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:32AM (#11698440) Homepage

Before you criticise the craftwork, consider the medium.

You don't expect a pile of burning tires to be stacked neatly, do you? That's about the same as expecting coherence and grammar in a slashdot post.

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I told them. I TOLD them. (Score:3, Funny)

by geophile ( 16995 ) writes: <(jao) (at) (geophile.com)> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:36AM (#11698462) Homepage

Don't use SHA-1

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Re:Copied Music (Score:5, Funny)

by binarybum ( 468664 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:37AM (#11698466) Homepage

I think what he meant to say was, "all of your base belong to us"

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Re:Whatever (Score:2, Funny)

by PowerEdge ( 648673 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:38AM (#11698479)

Everyone exclaims about the Analog hole. How can you stop recording something if you can hear it. I think I have discovered a solution. Blow out everyones ear drums and have their hearing replaced with a set of bionic hearing aids that conform to DRM. Through a real world ADC you can still the hear approved analog sounds in your environment, but all speakers, headphones and anything that can broadcast DRM media will be replaced with digital transmitters that interface with your DRM validated hearing aid. This will solve lots of problems! Of course, if/when the DRM is cracked and people upload hacked firmware to their ears a new specification will have to be devised and the ears upgraded. This could theoretically be applicable to our other senses. Digital Eyes, and Taste (DRM Emeril recipes).

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Re:Old News (Score:2, Funny)

by MeanJeans ( 560482 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:54AM (#11698591)

What does moral relativism have to do with this? I would say nothing.

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I saw it coming! (Score:5, Funny)

by ImaLamer ( 260199 ) writes: <john.lamar@gma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:01AM (#11698651) Homepage Journal

I was going to submit this story with the headline:

Napster is Back!

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Mounting lobbyist costs for the RIAA (Score:3, Funny)

by smchris ( 464899 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:17AM (#11698777)

Considering the Chinese didn't have very good luck stopping the opium trade with crucifixion, it looks like the RIAA will have to spend big money on Congress now to get some _really_ tough penalties in force.

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Press Release (Score:5, Funny)

by SomeOtherGuy ( 179082 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:18AM (#11698781) Journal

I have just cracked LP copy protection. I have plugged my record player into the line in button on my sound card, dropped the needle and clicked "record". This is a banner day. Hail to me. I am off to crack my camcorder next.

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Re:it's good enough (Score:5, Funny)

by redJag ( 662818 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:22AM (#11698812)

for audiophiles and perfectionists ....

Turns out they don't care since they'd never purchase that low quality of music in the first place eh? :)

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Re:Whatever (Score:1, Funny)

by GraemeDonaldson ( 826049 ) writes: <graeme&donaldson,za,net> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:51AM (#11699112) Homepage

Dear Slashdot User We have been researching this technology for several months. Please stop revealing our trade secrets. kthxbye teh RIAA

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Re:What they actually mean is... (Score:2, Funny)

by glindsey ( 73730 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:55AM (#11699150)

Of course, we all know the eventual solution to closing the "Analog Hole"... make everyone deaf. Everybody wins... until they start imposing DRM on sign language.

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Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:2, Funny)

by untaken_name ( 660789 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @11:44AM (#11699770) Homepage

You think?

I think so too. I also think the way it was phrased was ambiguous. I think that's why I made the joke.

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Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:3, Funny)

by untaken_name ( 660789 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @11:53AM (#11699874) Homepage

"CDs" it is plural

It's always nice when someone doesn't get the joke. It's even better when they reply with broken English. It's best when they're trying to correct me using broken English while missing the joke. Thank you, sincerely.

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Napster was right (Score:4, Funny)

by EvilStein ( 414640 ) writes: <.ten.pbp. .ta. .maps.> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @01:01PM (#11701118)

Now it really IS cheaper than iTunes. :)

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Bollywood's copy protection scheme (Score:3, Funny)

by PsiPsiStar ( 95676 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @03:12PM (#11703077)

Bollywood has a method of preventing their movies from being copies which is virutaly foolproof.

They produce mostly Hindi musicals.

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Man... (Score:5, Funny)

Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:1, Funny)

Copied Music (Score:5, Funny)

Sounds like it's time for the RIAA... (Score:3, Funny)

Free? (Score:4, Funny)

That Napster business plan in full (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Man... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whatever (Score:5, Funny)

Well, its come full circle. (Score:4, Funny)

Broadcast flag has been cracked (Score:5, Funny)

Napster v.s. iTunes (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Old News (Score:3, Funny)

Napster (and everything else). (Score:2, Funny)

And Apple... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Aw Crap (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Sounds like it's time for the RIAA... (Score:1, Funny)

Again? Damnit! (Score:1, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

Hey, what do you expect... (Score:5, Funny)

I told them. I TOLD them. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Copied Music (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whatever (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Old News (Score:2, Funny)

I saw it coming! (Score:5, Funny)

Mounting lobbyist costs for the RIAA (Score:3, Funny)

Press Release (Score:5, Funny)

Re:it's good enough (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Whatever (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What they actually mean is... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Damn...must not be very high quality songs... (Score:3, Funny)

Napster was right (Score:4, Funny)

Bollywood's copy protection scheme (Score:3, Funny)

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