Dave Horvath
27 Sep 2006 17:30
One of our diligent readers (xhardc0re) stumbled across a nice update to the FairUse4WM software reported a bit over a month ago. The software was released to the internet community to combat the DRM encryption put on digital media by Microsoft Corporation. In recent news, Microsoft has been tracking these people down in an attempt to file a lawsuit claiming the developer of the software somehow illegally gained access to their very own encryption source code.
Microsoft attempted to patch the source code to prevent FairUse4WM from doing what it does so well, but the developer of the software, known by the pseudonymn "Viodentia" updated his own code and was back in business. Microsoft's lead attorney, Bonnie MacNaughton was quoted in saying, "Our own intellectual property was stolen from us and used to create this tool. They obviously had a leg up on any of the other hackers that might be creating circumvention tools from scratch."
Viodentia quickly posted a web submission stating, "FairUse4WM has been my own creation, and has never involved Microsoft source code. I link with Microsoft's static libraries provided with the compiler and various platform SDK (software development kit) files."
Source:
ZDNet