For those that haven't been reading on the internet, there is a program called FairUse4WM that strips off DRM.
Here is one article on it:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/f...ows-media-drm/
I downloaded a copy, and ran it against MovieLink movie that I purchased for $9.99 (title: The Secretary), and it STRIPPED OFF THE DRM.
I then went over to Yahoo Music that uses DRM for their subscription service and tried the free 7 day trial and downloaded music, ran it through FairUse4WM, and it STRIPPED OFF THE DRM.
Stripping off DRM hacks have been around for a while, but this one is particularly disturbing for the fact it is so easy to use. No longer the need to run command line utilities to do the stripping, simple drag and drop and its copyable.
It will take a while for MS to patch this one, and even if they do, won't matter, since most won't have the time to re-encode to the new DRM, and even then the hack will just come out shortly.
Many paysites were removing DRM because of consumer demand, while others were still holding on to DRM as a way of "protecting" files.
It seems now the genie is clearly out of the bottle on this one, rather than limited to the hacker community.
Fight the copywrongs!