Apple has succeeded in having playfair removed from sarovar.org. The cease and desist notice does not specify which paragraphs of the laws mentioned sarovar.org was supposedly violating. That’s not surprising. When the MPAA’s lawyer contacted me regarding DeCSS four years ago, he failed to specify paragraphs as well. Such is the nature of frivolous charges.

I’m not mirroring playfair for two reasons:

  • playfair is licensed under the GPL, but links to mp4v2 which is licensed under the MPL. The MPL is not GPL compatible. The developer of playfair could easily rectify this by changing the license of his code to MPL. Update: I forgot that playfair also links to mp4ff which is licensed under the GPL. Thus my previous suggestion wouldn’t solve the problem.
  • The playfair tarball is 0,5 MB. That’s way too much.

What’s a copyfighter to do in such circumstances? I give you DeDRMS. Tarball is 10 KB. 210 lines of code. Written in C# using MonoDevelop.

MD5(DeDRMS-0.1.tar.gz) = 934a471f20d6580d5aad759bf0d97ddc