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in case anyone's paying attention to the Sony stuff
Irony of ironies, my own submission to /. was rejected, but someone else who described me as, and I quote, a "brave hacker" managed to sneak a link past the editors. Or whatever. Anyway. For the benefit of me, mainly, getting this stuff off my chest, but also anyone who's actually interested,
10. I did not break ATRAC
9. I did not break whatever it is that Sonic Stage outputs; this is most likely ATRAC, but at least one person has said they got music from Sonic Stage that they could play on an iPod. That sounds like plain ol' MP3 to me.
8. I know this works on a NW-S23 S2 Network Walkman. I can't speak for any other device.
7. Several other bits of Sony hardware including the hard-drive based Network Walkmans may actually support ordinary MP3 files natively.
6. I don't for a second consider this DRM, although that's more a personal view than anything I could even begin to back up in an argument. The short version is, if Sony wanted to DRM this they could've just stuck with ATRAC, or MP3-wrapped-in-ATRAC. They've got all the bits on the player already.
5. I did write tools for this. I've only so far shared a fairly hamfisted library. I don't have any good reasons for this.
4. This is quite possibly a violation of the DMCA. c.f. Adobe v. Elcomsoft.
3. There are some roughly equivalent laws outside the US. Specifically, current Irish copyright law is, to the best of my knowledge, similar to the DMCA except without the "fair use" provisions.
2. I made a point of disconnecting explicit links between the technical details and my own website. My site is a 450MHz laptop on a DSL line; I don't particularly fancy fending off hordes of ADD-afflicted drive-by browsers, thanks.
1. "brave hacker". Snork. How about "geek who should get out more"?
10. I did not break ATRAC
9. I did not break whatever it is that Sonic Stage outputs; this is most likely ATRAC, but at least one person has said they got music from Sonic Stage that they could play on an iPod. That sounds like plain ol' MP3 to me.
8. I know this works on a NW-S23 S2 Network Walkman. I can't speak for any other device.
7. Several other bits of Sony hardware including the hard-drive based Network Walkmans may actually support ordinary MP3 files natively.
6. I don't for a second consider this DRM, although that's more a personal view than anything I could even begin to back up in an argument. The short version is, if Sony wanted to DRM this they could've just stuck with ATRAC, or MP3-wrapped-in-ATRAC. They've got all the bits on the player already.
5. I did write tools for this. I've only so far shared a fairly hamfisted library. I don't have any good reasons for this.
4. This is quite possibly a violation of the DMCA. c.f. Adobe v. Elcomsoft.
3. There are some roughly equivalent laws outside the US. Specifically, current Irish copyright law is, to the best of my knowledge, similar to the DMCA except without the "fair use" provisions.
2. I made a point of disconnecting explicit links between the technical details and my own website. My site is a 450MHz laptop on a DSL line; I don't particularly fancy fending off hordes of ADD-afflicted drive-by browsers, thanks.
1. "brave hacker". Snork. How about "geek who should get out more"?