iCommune for iTunes Shares Over Network

Posted by pudge on Friday January 10, 2003 @04:07AM from the sweeeeet dept.

James G. Speth writes "I just released a free public beta of iCommune, a plug-in for iTunes that enables music sharing over the network. Your friends' music libraries appear in the iTunes source list. You can browse their collections, and choose to download or stream their music. It also allows you to make your own music library available to others." It's a bit buggy, but it is a beta. It shows a lot of promise. It also comes with an indexer (in Python, though I might write my own in Perl :-) so you can share MP3s to iTunes clients outside of iTunes on the server end (such as from a Linux box, in theory).

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hmm.... by kanna · 2003-01-10 04:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Smells like well-cooked Mac-Napster. The RIAA will ask to get a court permission to hack all Mac users and look for 'illegal MP3s'... especially people with 8 CDRs (8x CDRs are equivalent to 8 burners according to RIAA) in their computers. Will this be **THE** FUCK-YOU-RIAA application?