When will companies learn that pouring money and effort in Digital Rights Managment (DRM) is a lot like pouring the same into a hole in the ground?
A handy little app called Tunebite doesn’t even attempt to crack the DRM encryption that one must assume Nokia paid good money for, instead opting to just hijack the PC’s audio output – ripping the tunes as they pass through your sound card.
It is a fairlly low-tech, brute force solution to what the DRM designers must have hoped was an intricate, elegant problem involving lots of heavy-duty maths.
It may be possible for Nokia to fix this – but it would involve installing software that seeks out Tunebite and kills it, or sticks a driver layer in that will interfere with such audio shenanigans. This would be both costly, difficult and rather invasive, not to mention prone to failure or subsequent workarounds.
Un-lucky, in other words. One can only imagine the promises that Nokia must have made to the music labels about protecting their intellectual property, and the rather heated phone calls that are now taking place…
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