All iPhone App Store games have been hacked to get rid of the DRM locking them down. Some pretty tach savvy hackery is involved. But, if you’re ambitious, and hate DRM, this one’s right up your alley.
“Apple’s Fairplay DRM, which protects all the applications you download from iTunes, has been hacked. The method for hacking this has actually been around for a while, but has been recently applied to Super Monkey Ball and distributed into the wild. To do this, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone and SSH installed (to transfer the game and to fiddle with permissions). The theory is a bit techy and complex, but the execution isn’t too insane if you know your way around XCode and the command line,” Jason Chen reports for Gizmodo.
Additionally, Macnn reports that “If the hack does indeed work, the security breach could have a major impact on the hundreds of applications for sale at the AppStore. Super Monkey Ball sells for $10 and is protected with the same FairPlay DRM Apple has used for years on content from the iTunes store. The posting on Hacklabs provides step-by-step installation instructions for the game and encourages users to join a forum for sharing other hacked apps. Since the hack has only been available for a few hours, there has been no response yet from Apple or Sega or even confirmation of the hack.”
Additional thoughts: Did anyone really the think the App Store was immune to a good old game of cat-and-mouse?
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