iBooks DRM has been cracked.

#1

Post by AndrewDucker » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

iBooks DRM has been cracked.
the-digital-reader.com

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

#2

Post by krig » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 3:25 PM UTC

I can confirm that yes, it has been cracked. Happily it is (as far as I know) not yet illegal for me to remove DRM protection from books I've purchased, although I'm sure that will change soon.

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

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Post by cobrabyte » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

krig wrote: post #2

I can confirm that yes, it has been cracked. Happily it is (as far as I know) not yet illegal for me to remove DRM protection from books I've purchased, although I'm sure that will change soon.

I'm with you. I purchase my books but I'm not too fond of Apple's ebook reader. I'll finally be able to get those books into other apps. And, maybe I'll start buying more -- novel concept. :)

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

#4

Post by kristofferR » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:10 PM UTC

Offical site (requires TOR to be installed): http://tag3ulp55xczs3pn.onion/cgi-bin/ssi/index.shtml

Webified link (doesn't require TOR): http://tag3ulp55xczs3pn.onion.to/cgi-bin/ssi/index.shtml

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

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Post by DarkShikari » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

I’ve always thought that DRM only remained unbroken so long as no hacker was interested in breaking it

This has always been true; why break the weak DRM on a low-quality 'Netflix' stream when you can do an HDTV rip or even a Blu-ray rip?

But the instant you create exclusive content that everyone wants on such a service, the DRM will be broken faster than you can say "DMCA".

The downside of this is it lets companies delude themselves (and others) into thinking that their DRM is "secure", when in reality it is simply that nobody cares about them.

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

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Post by jonny_eh » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:44 PM UTC

DarkShikari wrote: post #5

I’ve always thought that DRM only remained unbroken so long as no hacker was interested in breaking it This has always been true; why break the weak DRM on a low-quality 'Netflix' stream when you can do an HDTV rip or even a Blu-ray rip? But the instant you create exclusive content that everyone wants on such a service, the DRM will be broken faster than you can say "DMCA". The downside of this is it lets companies d…

Now that Netflix has original exclusive content, can we look forward to someone hacking the Netflix stream?

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

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Post by Karunamon » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #4

Offical site (requires TOR to be installed): http://tag3ulp55xczs3pn.onion/cgi-bin/ssi/index.shtml Webified link (doesn't require TOR): http://tag3ulp55xczs3pn.onion.to/cgi-bin/ssi/index.shtml

Holy crap! I thought Requiem hadn't been updated in years!

Thanks for the links.

*edit

The onion site seems to have a heck of a time serving files. I've been trying for an hour and have yet to get a valid zip. Some kind soul is seeding out a torrent of all three archives (windows, mac, and source)

Try this:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a8f71c6c1b773a2f43850e4dae9189165a7ba0aa&dn=requiem-3.3.4&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%2Fannounce

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

#8

Post by jonny_eh » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

Great, now I honestly feel safe about buying from the iBookstore!

This can only lead to an increase in sales.

Did they not learn anything from the music industry? Sales have only gone up since they scrapped DRM! (citation needed)

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

#9

Post by Vexenon » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 4:56 PM UTC

Surprised that websites are barely picking up on this, since the solution has been out for roughly two weeks now. Requiem works great and it takes a matter of seconds to complete, regardless of whether you're removing DRM from a book or TV show.

Glad to see Brahms finally getting some much-deserved recognition.

Re: iBooks DRM has been cracked.

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Post by haakon » Sat, Feb 25, 2012, 5:00 PM UTC

jonny_eh wrote: post #6

DarkShikari wrote: post #5

I’ve always thought that DRM only remained unbroken so long as no hacker was interested in breaking it This has always been true; why break the weak DRM on a low-quality 'Netflix' stream when you can do an HDTV rip or even a Blu-ray rip? But the instant you create exclusive content that everyone wants on such a service, the DRM will be broken faster than you can say "DMCA". The downside of this is it lets companies d…

Now that Netflix has original exclusive content, can we look forward to someone hacking the Netflix stream?

I've been told there are torrents of exclusive Netflix content.