Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

What the iPod hack means for you

Opinion
Oct 27, 20061 min

So this 22-year-old hacker claims he has reverse-engineered the copy protection on music bought from iTunes. And he claims he’s on “good legal ground.” And he intends to make a little scratch off his hard work by licensing it to an unnamed client *cough*microsoft*cough*. What does this mean for you, your iPod, Apple and non-iTunes music purveyors? The Register breaks it down. Via The Register