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November 16, 2005

Kazakhstan Looses Sense of Humor

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Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.

"Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.


Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West."

-CGP fo Life-

March 22, 2005

PyMusique Strikes Back

Not too long after PyMusique was released, Apple "fixed" the hole by requiring customers to use iTunes 4.7. It's been 3 days and DVD Jon has already reversed engineered the 4.7 encryption and has updated PyMusique to work again. How long till Apple fixes it again?

-CGP fo Life-

March 18, 2005

iTunes Store Songs Sans DRM

DVD Jon iTunes Jon has struck Apple again (mirror here), this time it's called Pymusique. Basically it lets you buy songs (or redownload already purchased songs) from the iTunes store without any DRM or restrictions. While it breaks Apple's terms of service, it probably is legal, but you can be sure Apple's gonna fix this hole soon.

-CGP fo Life-

January 7, 2005

Is this the Headless iMac?

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Check out these pic's before Apple Legal does! Is this the much rumored headless iMac? Or maybe a whole seperate product? Anyone have any juicy info????

-CGP fo Life-

November 3, 2004

iPodDownload 1.1

Remember iPod Download? The iTunes plugin that let you freely transfer songs to an iPod directly from within iTunes? Apple sent them a cease and desist and rendered version 1 incompatable with the most recent version of iTunes. A fixed version (1.1) has leaked out and you can download it here.

-CGP fo Life-

September 17, 2004

Grab it while you can!

Wildbits created an iTunes plug-in called iPodDownload that lets you freely transfer songs from your iPod directly in iTunes without any secondary application. The problem though, is to make an iTunes plug-in you have to use Apple's SDK, and that means your plug-in, when compiled, contains Apple's code in it. So Apple legal got his site shut down until he removed the file. Luckily for you this guy is mirroring it. Grab it while you can.

-CGP fo Life-

August 11, 2004

DVD Jon Goes APE

DVD Jon has decrypted the key that Apple's Airport Express uses to stream audio. According to him:
"The stream is encrypted with AES and the AES key is encrypted with RSA. "
He has posted the full key and a windows app for streaming on his blog.

-CGP fo Life-

July 8, 2004

DVD Jon Strikes Again

Uber-coder Jon Lech Johansen (A.K.A. DVD Jon) has come up with yet another fuck you to Apple's FairPlay DRM: FairKeys

"I've released FairKeys, a tool which lets you retrieve your FairPlay keys from Apple's servers.
Instructions for MacOS X users:
1. Install MonoFramework-1.0.dmg
2. Start Terminal.app
3. curl -O 'http://nanocrew.net/software/FairKeys/FairKeys-0.2.tar.gz'
4. tar -zxvf FairKeys-0.2.tar.gz ; cd FairKeys-0.2
5. mcs -target:exe -out:"FairKeys.exe" -r:ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll -r:System.Web.dll FairKeys.cs AssemblyInfo.cs FairStore.cs
6. mono FairKeys.exe "

To be honest I have no idea what the hell one would do with the keys, but it's still early and I have not thought much into it.

-CGP fo Life-

May 11, 2004

HYMN - Hear Your Music Anywhere

PlayFair has returned and works with the newest iTunes! The name and host have changed, but it still decrypts music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. One big thing has changed though, the Apple ID used to purchase the song is still embedded in the file to discourage people from sharing their decrypted songs.

-CGP fo Life-

April 26, 2004

FairTunes fills in where PlayFair Left Off

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Apple put the smack down on PlayFair twice, so grab FairTunes while you can.

"Convert any authorized protected iTunes song into an unprotected, uncompressed file.
Supports AIFF, Wave, QuickTime, System 7 Sound, MuLaw, and AVI file creation.
Easy to use - no complicated setup needed.
Built for Mac OS X"

And unlike PlayFair no PC or iPod is needed. Download and share it before they get DMCA'ed to death.

-CGP fo Life-

July 25, 2003

BuyMusic.com pretends it's Apple

I am sure you have all read the stories about BuyMusic.com and how much they are trying to be like the iTunes Music Store(IMS). The webpage looks exactly like the IMS but uglier. The commercials are an EXACT ripoff of the AppleMusic commercials, so much so that BeskOne's girlfriend (BeskTwo??? Beskpointfive????) thought they were apple commercials! They claim songs as low as 79¢, but EVERY song I looked for was 99¢. And now, the BuyMusic.com homepage wont even Mac users on the site to look around. How long till Apple Legal stomps on them a bit?
-CGP fo Life-



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