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Nokia's Comes With Music Drm Cracked
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by Jordan Yerman | December 13, 2008 at 09:19 am
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Nokia's Comes with Music (CWM) service's digital rights management (DRM) was cracked using a rather inexpensive application.
Nokia's only real defense is to somehow hope that its users don't find out about the app, but, since it appeared on Techdirt (and, I guess, NowPublic), that's fairly unlikely.
The problem with DRM is that it turns purchases into leases, and if breaking it (and attendant laws) make the user experience better, then that's what users will do.
History bears that out, yet media companies keep their heads in the sand.
More frustrating is that the software, labelled Tunebite, has taken an innovative approach to removing the DRM from the CWM tracks which would appear to be hard for Nokia to combat. The Tunebite approach is to play CWM tracks at speed and redub them into a non-encrypted file--claiming to convert a track within a few seconds.
Once again, you have to ask why Nokia even bothered?
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at 00:13 on December 14th, 2008
Could they get sued over this and then having to recall their Product?
at 13:33 on December 14th, 2008
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