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DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users

Posted by timothy on from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

McGruff writes "The Register has a story regarding DVD-Jon's new hobby, iTunes DRM. According to the story DRMed iTunes AAC files can now be played under Linux via VidioLAN Client thanks to some handywork by Jon. '"When you run the VideoLAN Client under Windows it will write the user key to a file. The user key is system independent and can thus be used by the GNU/Linux version of VLC," he explains.' Personally, this just means I will buy even more iTunes." (We mentioned in November Johansen's efforts to negate the iTunes restrictions on Windows.)

13 of 584 comments (clear)

  1. DVD-Jon is a terrorist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When will the this commie bastard be stopped from stealing money from corporations?????

  2. Re:iTunes on Linux by goldfndr · · Score: 2, Funny
    I broke a lot of digital clocks as a kid because I wanted to know what made them tick! I still got new ones, and broke them as well.

    I'm sorry it never dawned on you that the ticking must've been coming from something else.

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    Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks: temporary loans from the Public Domain, not real property ("intellectual" or otherwise)
  3. Re:What does this guy do for a living? by Frisky070802 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he's a professional defendant, or wants to be.

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    Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
  4. Wait by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    So can we change his name to iTunes-Jon. Or better yet how about iDVD-Jon. Kinda catchy, actually.

  5. Re:What does this guy do for a living? by gss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ha, hacking away to break an encryption scheme is not exactly what I would call "having a life".

  6. THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION by exhilaration · · Score: 3, Funny
    We must immediately invade Norway and effect a REGIME CHANGE in order to prevent any future threat to this great country. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

    - Dubya

  7. Slightly Off Topic... by Luke+the+Obscure · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until all Slashdot comments are nothing but long strings of esoteric acronyms.

  8. Re:What does this guy do for a living? by glitch23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who ever said they earned a living?

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    this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
  9. Maybe DVD John sould just move into a courthouse n by aardwolf204 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe DVD John sould just move into a courthouse now

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    Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the /.crowd.May ur days b merry & bright & may al
  10. Wasn't me by The+Tyro · · Score: 5, Funny

    making it more accessible to the tyro

    I had nothing to do with it... I wasn't there... you can't prove anything.

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    Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
  11. balls by MrSpiff · · Score: 3, Funny

    "this guy got balls the size of dorian fruit" - some guy in Freedom Downtime

  12. Re:What's the point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All I hear is "I pirate music. I understand neither encryption nor compression. I read Slashdot." Jesus.

  13. Re:Jon wrote 1000 lines of code with no comments by jdmuir · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you remove comments for job security?
    He's just thinking about his future!