Jon Johansen is at it again.
The 19 year old man from Norway, not happy with hacking the DVD content scrambling system with his DeCSS product in 1999, has now turned to the Apple iTunes music service.
Johansen was pratically asking to get prosecuted this time, literally.
QTFairUse was posted on a website for which Jon Johansen is the registered owner. Along side his application was a simple comment, "so sue me...".
The program can open a MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding song (the format Apple iTunes are in) and play it in QuickTime but it also streams the raw music into another file.
Utilities already exist that allows users to rip music from ACC encoded songs, but they usually result in a loss of quality. Using QTFairUse causes no loss.
More information as we get it...
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