“America Online yesterday removed from the Web site of its Winamp media player a software plug-in that is reportedly being used to make unauthorized copies of tunes from the Napster To Go subscription service,” John P. Mello Jr. reports for TechNewsWorld. “According to AOL spokesperson Ann Burkart, the offending applet, Output Stacker, has been taken down from the Winamp site. ‘We are also working with Microsoft to ensure Winamp continues to provide secure playback of Windows Media content,’ she told TechNewsWorld.”
“The mischievous potential of the Winamp plug-in came to light after several Web sites, such as BoingBoing and Engadget, posted how-to’s on using the program to capture online audio from a computer’s sound card, a process known as ‘stream ripping,'” Mello Jr. reports. “‘As long as we listen to music through our ears and watch video through our eyes, there’s going to be a way to get around any security scheme,’ Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group in San Jose, California, told TechNewsWorld. ‘All you have to do is convert it to analog feed.'”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Napster feels the heat over flawed copy-protection scheme – February 17, 2005
Apple CEO Steve Jobs warns record industry of Napster To Go’s security gap – February 16, 2005
Users thwart Napster To Go’s copy protection; do the music labels realize the piracy potential? – February 15, 2005
Napster-To-Go’s ‘rental music’ DRM circumvented – February 14, 2005
Napster CEO Gorog: ‘it’s stupid to buy an iPod’ – February 10, 2005
Big brother at work. Great. Hey, that plug-in is surely available from a thousand other sources, so no loss.
Robby, King of the obvious.
The file is already on ALL P2P sites, anyone who wants it can get it.
S’all over the web.
AOHellers don’t know their head from their ass.
Hence, why they still use AOHell, LOL!!
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No comment on the story.. but at MDN, I must say that I find these pop-ups that circumvent Safari’s pop-up blocker to be in bad taste.
If I wanted to be inundated with this stuff, I would turn the blocker off. Please respect our right to surf the web sans pollution.
Thank You
Willie G. I think you should look to the people serving the site, not the people running the site. I don’t believe thie is the fault of MDN.
PS I just ordered a new iMac. Happy happy joy joy.
Quit your whining, you little mac simpletons.
Oh, my precious mac blocks all pop ups
Oh, my precious mac is immune to virus
You guys are truly a gaggle of simpletons.
Haha, LOL @ the macheads whining about pop ups.
CSS blocking works in Safari just add the pop up URL to the list. I use “stopADVbanners.css”. Makes for very quiet surfing: the site gets the hits but you see no advertising…
Willie G., go here.
Does anyone remember the name of that guy who used to post all those comments about “the real IT world” having no use for Macs?
was it G-spank or something in that vein? I miss that guy. This new guy is far less subtle.
Sorry , sorry, sorry to G-Spank, it was Sputnik i was thinking of. Where is Sputnik?
Here’s subtle for Mike K
Take your mac, take your rice cakes, take your green peace t shirt, and lastly take yourself and go for a swim with the fishes.
Simpleton mac zealots.
“Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group”
can i toot my own horn too?
baawhahhahahahaha
…Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group…
Hehe. Bobby is employee number one of the two employee ‘Enderle Group’.
This guy has a great imagination.
Next he’ll proclaim himself President Enderle of Enderland (population 4 – him, his wife and his kids!) and he’ll declare war against the USA from the backyard of his townhouse. After the US Govt sends one Marine to hand Rob his ass in a brown paper sack, the money that the US usually gives to rebuild nations, will help Rob put in a really bitching pool table in his ‘rec’ room.
Of course being the commander and chief for Enderland will allow him to have the best parties with all the world leaders coming over for cigars and brandy, maybe make passes at his wife, and teach his kids foreign languages.
I just had to show off! ‘donnie’ beat me to the punch. Oh well.
Greenpeace, not green peace. If you’re going to call others “simpleton”, you better make sure you’re not one as well.
Sptunik is no more… NoMacForYou is the bastard lovechild of Sputnik and Ron
Output Stacker here!
Get it and pass it to all your PC friends, they can’t stop us!
http://blog.kordix.com/marv/archives/000400.html
now come on anastasia, how is that even possible?
/I still miss Sputnik
NoMacForMe has such a sad life that he has nothing else to do but to wait for new headline appears on MDN every day and try to get a first post!! I suggest that he move on and find something better to do, like playing with himself, instead of wasting his life on hatred.
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NO POP UPS with my Safari.
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You guys screw something up?
NoMac is great, leave him alone. To respond to him and his little Microsoft(unit) just encourages him.
All of Sputnik’s posts were ironic, and a pastiche of the sort of crap that people like NoMacForYou sprout.
I bet you, Robbie Enderle has also been named “employee of the month of Enderle Group”
This Enderle Group, isn’t it basically Rob and his Missus?
Hågar
CEO and CFO of Hagar Group”