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And again the Norwegian programmer does want to speak Lech Johansen of self. After the cracking of the dvd-protection and the ontkeyen of the copysecurity of iTunes-music, he puts to play users now in state via iTunes downloaded music also off on a Linux-computer.

Its Johansen, that newest invention exclusive public made at the British newssite The Record, want with this try how far the” Fair Use” -administration of Apple goes.

Before brought the Noor the program” QTFairUse” from with which the possible is the copysecurity to get around that have been put in in numbers, that have been bought in the iTunes Music Disturb. Was this program however more a demonstration of the” break-in possibility”. Not-computer experts could little with the software, because they these firstly yet must compileren. Furthermore QTFairUse yields after the cracking yet no workable truce size. QTFairUse is gone up now however whole to use with it more easily VideoLan, an open-source streamingvideo-software project.

For the break-in particular Johansen firstly which key there became uses a music truce to connect at a single Windows-computer. That key appeared composed to become of four factors: the series number of the C: drive, the Bios-version, the name of the processor and the Product-ID number of Windows.

Because the key becomes way letter to a resistant that also the new Videolan-client can read is the possible iTunes-music finished to listen on each steering system on which VideoLan turns, and therefore also on Linux. Officially Apple iTunes music can be played only on an Apple or Windows computer. Further it is with this solution possible the via Apple bought music finished to play on BSD systems, Solaris and QNX.

Hobby foods work furthermore at manners iTunes-music so to manipulate that these simple in someone else mp3-player then an iPod is finished to play. Apple Computer launches show probably tonight new iPod MP3-players on the MacWorld in San Francisco.

Grant Johansen beard in 1999 dread then he DeCSS published, with which is dvd the possibles to ontkeyen and to copy. He was picked up and dragged for the judge in Norway. These was however of opinion that Johansen not completely wrongly the code had cracked, because he are bought dvds want to look at on its Linux-computer. Recently yet became in Norway decided that further affairs against Johansen become geseponeerd.