Jon Johansen's iTunes decryption software PlayFair has been given a new lease of life after Apple successfully lobbied for it to be removed firstly from Sourceforge and later from SourceForge's Indian counterpart, Sarovar.
The project has been wittily renamed Hymn (Hear Your Music aNywhere) and is now owned by Anand Babu. The Free Software Foundation of India (FSF) provides legal support to the project.
"Since we're no longer using the mp4v2 library to copy the meta data from the protected AAC file, it is left fully intact, including the apple ID of the user who bought the song. This proves that our purpose is for fair use and not for 'piracy' and should help us in our legal battles." Babu states on the project's homepage.
You can download the latest version of the software (0.6.1) at the project homepage. A pre-compiled binary version is available for both Mac OS X and Windows, although the Windows version is currently command-line only. The source code is available for all platforms.
Hymn website:
hymn-project.org.
