MusicForMe cracks Allofmp3's music streaming service

 

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By Simon Aughton

Posted on 26 Oct 2006 at 11:54

MusicForMe has cracked the DRM designed to restrict access to Allofmp3's Music for Masses, just days after the free music streaming service was launched.

Music for Masses - which stretches Allofmp3's highly dubious legality to new limits - provides free access to the Russian company's entire music catalogue. Tracks are wrapped in a DRM jacket which means they can only be played in the Music for Masses Player.

The MusicForMe hack simply strips out the DRM, leaving a pristine 128Kbps MP3, complete with full ID3 tags.

Quite why AllofMp3 decided to offer free music is not clear. Either it was a deliberate attempt to further rile the music industry or a precursor to building an ad-supported free music service, a move it hinted at last week. Whether its existence can be sustained remains open to question.