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WMA Copyright protection cracked?

Beale Screamer has successfully cracked Microsoft’s copy protection used in Windows Media digital right management software. The crack called Freeme strips off the piece from the WMA or WMV file that prevents copying the file.This is extremely bad news for Microsoft. Because they had some deals going with movie studios and recordlabels in order to get WM used as a standard in digital media distribution online.

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Site was getting hit hard so it might be hard to get back into. If anyone knows of a good mirror let us know.

Edit: it looks like Wired has caught wind of the crack.


  • maouse

    Hmmmm…. and just BEFORE they had a chance to license it and make money off of it… LOL. Gotta love the internet…

  • rroyer

    The Wired article is from Aug. 18, 1999, over 5 years ago.

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