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Navio Plans to Crack Apple’s FairPlay
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 at 2:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Navio is working on reverse engineering Apple's digital rights management (DRM) technology, FairPlay, according to Playlist. Navio, a DRM development company, intends on offering its version of FairPlay to other online music retailers so that they can sell iPod compatible songs.
Online music resellers are currently blocked from selling copy-protected songs that play on the iPod because Apple is not licensing FairPlay to other companies.
RealNetworks has already reverse engineered FairPlay more than once. After the company broke Apple's code, it started selling iPod compatible songs through its Rhapsody service. Apple modified its DRM, disabling songs purchased via Rhapsody. RealNetworks has since re-broken Apple's code so that it can continue to sell music for the iPod.
Reverse engineering is a risky business, since Apple can modify its DRM at any time, rendering competitors FairPlay-enabled songs useless.
Apple has not yet commented on Navio's plans.
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