“Microsoft has wound up its hype machine in its usually
efficient manner and launched its digital music technology,
Windows Media Audio (WMA), straight into a nest of worms,
trojans and viruses. Ready and waiting for it out there on the
Internet was a program created by a hacker, or if you like
‘cracker’, which strips away the security from WMA files, removing
all playback restrictions. News of the existence of the file,
charmingly named ‘unfuck.exe’ first emerged on Dimension Music, a
Web site that champions the competing MP3 music format.”
“…the music industry needs a way to protect audio copyright
over the internet and a group of technology companies and record
labels have launched the Secure Digital Music Initiative in an
attempt to achieve this.
Thus far no failsafe approach has emerged.”