Programmers on Sony's spyware DRM asked for newsgroup help too

Programmers on Sony's less-known DRM, a piece of spyware called MediaMax from a company called Suncomm, posted messages to newsgroups asking for help with their technology. Earlier today I blogged two other exchanges from the authors of the Sony rootkit DRM, First4Internet.

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsmedia.drm
From: "Ken Fagan" – Find messages by this author
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:22:16 -0700
Local: Tues, May 1 2001 12:22 pm
Subject: How to download a licensed WM DRM file
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Here is our big problem!

We have found the same feature in the SDK files but what we WANT to do
is EXACTLY
what you describe as well as what is described below from the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/wm7/drm.asp#works

We want to DOWNLOAD (and not stream) the files to the end user WITH A
license to
Play or Delete or Transfer to an SDMI Compliant Portable Device BUT NOT
TO
TARNSFER TO A PEER PC…

We want to do all of this WITHOUT having to require the user to
re-validate a
license with an online licensing server again!

It seems like you have figured it out!

Can you help???

Link 1, Link 2
(Thanks, Jason!)

Previous installments of the Sony Rootkit Roundup: Part I, Part II, Part III

(Cool Sony CD image courtesy of Collapsibletank)