Microsoft's anti-piracy program was cracked

Once again, Microsoft has been exposed to salt when hackers have launched a new program, which allows ordinary computer users to unlock anti-copy music or movie files as well.

The latest version of FairUse4M can easily unlock digital rights management (DRM) systems for Windows Media audio-visual files.

It is like a challenge that will be mischievous for Microsoft, especially when the software giant has spent the past year trying to block the vulnerabilities inside DRM that were previously exploited by FairUse4M versions.

Even, Microsoft filed a lawsuit against anonymous authors of FairUse4M. However, only a few months later, Microsoft had to give up this lawsuit because . not identifying the identity of the defendant.

The third version of FairUse4M uses a very simple drag-and-drop interface. Users can turn all paid digital music files in the computer into "free" tunes, which can be easily copied and shared with others as you like. They can also turn them into MP3 files to enjoy on any music player.

" We knew from the beginning that no digital rights management technology could be bypassed ," said Jonathan Usher, director of media technology at Microsoft users.

Change of attitude

Source: SevensHeaven Microsoft has recruited a team of software engineers specializing in blocking these types of vulnerabilities, and the Windows Media DRM system is advertised as "very easy to modify to block unlocking types".

However, Usher did not say there were a total of many songs protected by "hacked" hackers, as well as how much time it took to fight this third version of FairUse4M.

While Microsoft remains loyal to the idea of ​​digital rights protection, it seems that the attitude and perspective of the technology industry is changing. Earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs once called for "ending the era of music being tied up".

" There are a lot of smart people in the world, plenty of time, love to discover secrets and publish them to everyone so everyone can listen to music for free.

Often they always succeed, so any company that wants to protect content with DRM is also required to regularly update the system. It's like a cat-and-mouse game, 'Jobs said.

Apple's iTunes digital music store began selling non-copy-protected music from last May. In the same month, Amazon.com said its digital music store would "sell songs in MP3 format".

Trong Cam