iTunes legal silences Hymn

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 27, 2008 12:53 AM EDT
The Industry Standard; By Jonny Evans
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Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the open-source Hymn Project. Hymn develops software that strips Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology from user's iTunes purchases, allowing music fans to play their music on devices other than those from Apple. iTunes customers can legitimately lose FairPlay DRM in order to play their music on other devices by burning a CD of their songs, and ripping that CD into a different format.

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