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Playfair Relocates to India

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the taking-pea-out-of-the-pool dept.

Lord Grey writes "Imagine my surprise to see playfair 0.5.0 appear on Freshmeat's project list. Remember, the project was pulled after Apple filed a Cease-and-Desist order just a few days ago. playfair's new web site talks a bit about the move, as well as sporting the latest release of the controversial utility."

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  1. Apple the bully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Good for them! Great that they are standing up to bullies. Apple deserves nothing but condemnation for threatening frivolous lawsuits against them. There is more "Bill the Borg" in Apple than most people think

    1. Re:Apple the bully by alienw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Apple zealots are so hypocritical. They see nothing wrong with DeCSS, everything wrong with the DMCA, and yet a program which is exactly like DeCSS is somehow MORALLY wrong. You people look like regular idiots.

  2. Re:No good can come of this by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Use your imagination.

    What about the facility to burn MP3 CD's from protected AAC tracks? Right now we can burn audio CD's, but to folks with car stereos with MP3-CD support, plain old audio CD's aren't as cool.

    Yes, you could pop the MP3-CD in any computer and pull the MP3's off, but the same is true of an audio CD: it can be re-ripped to any format.

    The point is, the Playfair person or persons never sat down and said, "Here's what I want to be able to do. I do not want to enable people to pirate iTunes music, nor do I want to break the law. What's the solution?"

    Come on, man. You'd imagine that anybody who could create something like Playfair must be at least fairly bright. A person like that should jump at the chance to solve that kind of tricky, complex problem.

    Brute-forcing an illegal solution is neither elegant, nor impressive. It's just lame. Taking it off-shore to avoid legal entanglements is both lame and cowardly.

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    I write in my journal
  3. Re:It is impossible to steal less by Raffaello · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, let's be careful not to offend the sensibilities of my AC parent and be sure to refer to copyright violation as "copyright violation" not "stealing music."

    I, for one, faced with the alternatives:
    "piracy"
    "stealing music"
    "copyright violation"
    will continue to use "stealing music" in ordinary conversation and writing.

    Get over yourself. If you commit copyright violation by taking another person's copyrighted music, copying it without authorization, and redistributing it, you are taking some sales away from them. Maybe not everyone who downloads the file would have paid for it, but certainly some would have. Sales are money, so you are depriving them of some income. How is this morally different from letting your friends in the back door of a club that has a cover charge? Yes, not all would have paid to get in otherwise, but some would have. In this case, (the club) it is "theft of services." In the case of music copying it is "copyright violation." They are both forms of "stealing."

    Depriving a work's rightful owner of income generated by that work by giving away copies of that work without permission. Sure sounds like stealing to me, and to most honest people.

  4. Let's take a step back by Aslan72 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Am I really going to use this?

    Is there something that I can't do with the music that I have bought from itunes that this will allow me to do?

    Nope. Unless my favorite mp3 player gets a firmware update to play mp4s...no....do I need this on a machine other than the three that I play tracks on? No....

    Am I going to hop on Kazaa with all the tracks that I've downloaded? No....The heat is still too much on that program.

    Wow, really *useful* program ya got there dude.

    --pete