Monday Releases Cause Crashes

Posted by pudge on Tuesday April 6, 2004 @03:48AM from the caveat-usor dept.

The two big releases yesterday, Apple's Security Update and the DRM-canceling PlayFair, are causing problems. The Security Update appears to break cvs over pserver under some conditions (hangs for a long time, then quits with a malloc error), and ryanw writes, "according to the SF.net forum for playfair, the 'iTMS DRM stripping tool' destroys your purchased songs: the resulting files crash iTunes, the iPod, and QuickTime." Those who follow the rules -- wait a few days to install Apple's updates, and make backups of your iTMS files -- will be unaffected.

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Re:Apple protects fair-use by Endive4Ever · 2004-04-06 06:51 · Score: 0, Troll

I think many people would maintain there is nothing illegal about 'breaking a DRM scheme.'

It seems like somebody decided that enough Mac fans have infiltrated Slashdot and that it's time for them to come out of hiding and start Steve's Holy Fight. Or something. It just seems so astroturfy here these days whenever Apple comes up.

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