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[PSUs]| Thursday 26th October 2006 |
MusicForMe cracks Allofmp3's music streaming service
11:54AM, Thursday 26th October 2006
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.
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