Cracked: MS' New Music Format

Microsoft unveiled its long-awaited alternative to MP3, and a cracker quickly unleashed his program to get around MS' copyright restrictions. By Jennifer Sullivan and John Gartner.

Talk about an inauspicious debut.

Just as Microsoft released its much-anticipated digital music technology, a cracker found a way to circumvent its security restrictions -- and put a nasty moniker on it.


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