PANDA chomps through Spotify's DRM


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By Darren Pauli, 4 Jul 2014
 
Music can be ripped from Spotify using a tool that cracks digital rights management copyright protection, a Georgia Tech University researcher says.
Code dubbed Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis - aka PANDA - posted to GitHub does the job, says researcher Brendan Doln-Gavitt.
 "[The technique] by itself is just the starting point for what you would need to really break Spotify's DRM," Dolan-Gavitt (@Moyix) said, noting that he does not condone content piracy.
"It doesn't give you a way to obtain the key for each song and decrypt it wholesale ... Although I can certainly imagine more efficient processes, I think for now this is a nice balance between enabling piracy and showing off the power of PANDA."
 
The Register/ full read here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/04/spotify_drm_broken/

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