“The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday.”
The story reports that Microsoft has stopped this program twice in the last year, plugged the holes it exploits. It even went as far as filing a federal lawsuit against the programs anonymous authors, which of course, had to be dropped because anonymous people are hard to find and therefore even harder to sue.
With this protection, PC users can buy protected music or videos, and using an easy drag-and-drop interface, strip the DRM controls out. They can then post the copyrighted material freely, using sites like Napster or other file swapping technologies.
