Want FairPlay DRM for your content? Don’t ask Apple. Ask a hacker.

Has it really come to this, Apple? Jon “DVD Jon” Lech Johansen, famous for cracking Apple’s FairPlay DRM, is apparently now offering to apply Apple’s own DRM to media so that they will work with Apple’s products…without having to sell them through the iTunes Store. Now I’ve long been in favor of Apple opening up their DRM to allow others to encode media, but I’m not sure this effort by the this famous hacker will last long enough after the sharks in Apple’s legal department catch the stink of hacker blood in the water. [ via Gizmodo and GigaOM ]