Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
As we wrote earlier this month, young hacker Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, has reverse-engineered Fairplay, the digital rights management system used on Apple iPod music players, enabling content from sources other than iTunes to play on iPod. However, Apple still remains silent on the issue.
For the uninitiated, FairPlay is the digital
rights management system that restricts songs downloaded from Apple's
iTunes store to being played on iPods and not other portable music
players. It is also designed to prevent music downloaded from other
online stores from being played on iPods.
Seven years ago, Johansen, who was just 15, successfully hacked the DRM
of DVDs so that they could play on Linux. However, he claims his
FairPlay hack is totally legal because the hack is not actually a hack
but a reverse engineered replication of the code.
In fact the native Norwegian, who now lives in San Francisco, is so
confident that what he has done is above the board technology
achievement, that he has founded a company called DoubleTwist Ventures
that plans to license it to Apple rivals.
Apple is not a company known for being shy about taking legal action to
protect its intellectual property. However, since the reports about DVD
Jon and his activities, the company has remained strangely silent.
This may be because DoubleTwist has not yet actually sold its
technology to anyone of note in the music player business. If a deal
was actually struck between DoubleTwist and anyone of the ilk of
Microsoft, Sony, Creative, Samsung or Sandisk, it is doubtful that
Apple would stay silent.
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