DVD Jon cracks Apple's iTunes Copyright

Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon, has done it again by hacking Apple's iTunes encryption. Johansen claims this allows people to move their purchased songs to other players which could break Apple's stronghold in the online music business. He has also formed a new company, aptly named DoubleTwist, to license the hack to third-party music stores and even to Apple. Johansen's hack actually affects the FairPlay encryption inside of Apple iTunes. Not only does Fairplay prevent store bought iTunes songs from being played on other MP3 players, but it also stops DRM-protected songs from other services from playing on the iPod. Essentially, Johansen's hack actually adds DRM to imported songs to make them compatible with iTunes. Regular MP3 files have always been freely importable into iPod, but many services don't offer songs in that format. Finally u can put songs from the Itunes music store and put in all MP3 players