Microsoft sues FairUse4WM hacker

SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is suing the hacker who released software to remove DRM code from Windows Media Player.

According to ZDNet, Vole claims that somehow the unknown developer had gained access to its copyrighted source code to carry out his hack so effectively.

Microsoft has been trying to find a cure for the hack, which successfully stripped anticopying guards from songs downloaded through subscription media services such as Napster or Yahoo Music.

So far two patches have been released, but the hacker, "Viodentia", quickly found a way around the update.

A Volish lawyer said that Microsoft's own intellectual property had been stolen and used to create this tool. It was the only way that Viodentia could have had a leg up on any of the other hackers that might be creating circumvention tools from scratch, he said.

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