Re: [xine-devel] apple itunes follow up

[Mike M. <mel...@pc...>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, TheSin wrote:

> I agree that it's not really a great approach, but I meant if the bits
> can be isolated to be removed that gives us a better chance at cracking
> the encryption...
>
> FairPlay must know how to decrypt it, but since it's not a player it re
> saves the file after decryption, thus we can use the decryption at play
> portion of the code base...
>
> Anyhow it's just an idea I thought I'd toss out, may help, may not :)

	What you describe is certainly possible and feasible. As a bonus,
the .m4p would retain all metadata. I just don't care to go through the
trouble...:) If someone else wishes to try his or her hand at this, I will
not try to stop them (and it increasingly appears that Apple will not try
to stop them, either).

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	-Mike Melanson