The Sound Of Silence
I know I'm a few days late with this, but it deserves a mention nonetheless.
Scott Moschella at PlasticBugs.com has declared war on the RIAA by downloading a song from i-Tunes, cracking the Digital Rights Management (DRM) and then offering it for download on his website.
The only catch is the song by Ciccone Youth is actually 63 seconds of silence. And to make things even better Moschella "bought" the song by turning pepsi bottles upside down in his local Ralph's store and finding a code under the bottlle cap for a free download as part of the Pepsi/i-Tunes promotion.
Once he downloaded the song Moschella then used a program called JHymn to crack the DRM, and then offered the song for free on PlasticBugs.com.
To date a few thousand people have downloaded the song, and his site crashed yesterday after BoingBoing.net and Digg.com picked up the story.
But his site's back up now and you can read the specifics of his experiment, including screenshots here.
Scott Moschella at PlasticBugs.com has declared war on the RIAA by downloading a song from i-Tunes, cracking the Digital Rights Management (DRM) and then offering it for download on his website.
The only catch is the song by Ciccone Youth is actually 63 seconds of silence. And to make things even better Moschella "bought" the song by turning pepsi bottles upside down in his local Ralph's store and finding a code under the bottlle cap for a free download as part of the Pepsi/i-Tunes promotion.
Once he downloaded the song Moschella then used a program called JHymn to crack the DRM, and then offered the song for free on PlasticBugs.com.
To date a few thousand people have downloaded the song, and his site crashed yesterday after BoingBoing.net and Digg.com picked up the story.
But his site's back up now and you can read the specifics of his experiment, including screenshots here.
posted by James Mason at 8:22 AM
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