Jon Lech Johansen, un joven noruego descifró el código de seguridad que impide a los usuarios del reproductor de música digital iPod de Apple utilizar canciones compradas en otras tiendas online que no sea iTunes Music Store.
(DT, AGENCIAS) El joven logró la hazaña revirtiendo el sistema anti-copía FairPlay de Apple, instalado en cada uno de los iPod.
Esta tecnología impide que las canciones comprada en la tienda iTunes sean transferidas a otros dispositivos que no sean iPod, así como tampoco permite que la música adquirida en otras tiendas online se utilicen en el reproductor de Apple.
Pero el descubrimiento de Johansen podría cambiar este panorama si otras compañías valiéndose de este código quiebran el dominio de iTunes y empiezan a ofrece música compatible con iPod.
En DoubleTwist, compañía donde trabaja este hacker, parecen entender que el descubrimiento es una verdadera mina de oro y ya anunciaron que tiene planes autorizar el uso del código a otros compañías, informó la Reuters.
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- http://www.conocimientosweb.net/dt/article5304.html
-http://www.vanguardia.com/2006/sema/43/tec1.htm
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Hacker unlocks Apple music download protection
Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:55pm ETSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A hacker who as a teen cracked the encryption on DVDs has found a way to unlock the code that prevents iPod users from playing songs from download music stores other than Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, his company said on Tuesday.
Jon Lech Johansen, a 22-year-old Norway native who lives in San Francisco, cracked Apple's FairPlay copy-protection technology, said Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist, the company that plans to license the code to businesses.
"What he did was basically reverse-engineer FairPlay," she said. "This allows other companies to offer content for the iPod."
At the moment, Apple aims to keep music bought from its iTunes online music store only available for Apple products, while songs bought from other online stores typically do not work on iPods.
But Johansen's technology could help rivals sell competing products that play music from iTunes and offer songs for download that work on iPods as they seek to take a bite out of Apple's dominance of digital music.
ITunes commands an 88 percent share of legal song downloads in the United States, while the iPod dominates digital music player sales with more than 60 percent of the market.
Cupertino, California-based Apple, whose profits have soared in recent years on the strength of the iPod, declined to comment.
Johansen, known as DVD Jon, gained fame when at the age of 15 he wrote and distributed a program that cracked the encryption codes on DVDs. This allowed DVDs to be copied and played back on any device.
His latest feat could help companies such as Microsoft Corp., Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which have all announced plans over the past few months for music download services combined with new devices to challenge Apple.
source http://today.reuters.com
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