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Playfair, enabling your Fair Use of music.
Posted on 18.04.2004 at 14:38:08 by CyBeR

So, there's this little app called Playfair, that strips iTunes Music Store AACs of their encryption, enabling you to play the files on computers that can't run iTunes, and on AAC-enabled devices that aren't iPods. Apple, of course, doesn't like this.

Apple then proceeded to have it pulled off Sourceforge, because the US has this DMCA thingy to protect businesses from the evil consumers they make products for. I'm not surprised that Sourceforge had to pull it - they are on US soil, after all. I am surprised, however, that Sarovar, an Indian sourceforge-alike that became the new home of the project, pulled it. The Cease and Desist letter Ppple had sent to them consisted basically of bullshit.

It's gone now, you say. Nope. The day it disappeared from Sarovar, I ran into it. I saw this coming, so I mirrored it. There is no law in the Netherlands that prevents you from excercising your right to fair use of copyrighted works, so it should be available for some time to come.

You can find it here. Remember, making music available for download without paying to do so is illegal, so keep it to yourself. Also, if you're on US territory you can't legally use it.

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