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Monday Releases Cause Crashes

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple made a mistake?! No! Oh, god! What will the fanboys think?!

  2. Trollpaste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Trollpasted from here.

  3. Re:Apple protects fair-use by Endive4Ever · · 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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  4. Re:Apple protects fair-use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    God dammit fucking hell. I just moderated this comment as overrated (because it is -- you are not fucking denied any rights, you are denied the privilege, which you never had in the first place; take it or leave it!!!!) and the fucking moderation showed up as UNDERrated. Fucking slashdot. FIX THE BUGS ALREADY!! OR is that a "feature" that all editors can't be modded down????

  5. Re:Dont know if this is related by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude, if you want to multi-task, use Windows. Hell, even Linux is better than that.