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iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked
fooishbar writes "Yesterday, Apple released iTunes 4.5, which deliberately broke the 4.2 authentication scheme, which had been successfully reverse-engineered. However, crazney has been at it again, and within 24 hours of downloading iTunes 4.5, has broken the new scheme, and added more features to this library along the way. If you want to incorporate iTMS support in your program, give libopendaap a go!" Reader ScottGant submits this story about the Pepsi/iTunes promotion: "News.com has this story about Pepsi's iTunes promotion give-away. The promotion,
which is slated to end this Friday, was to have given away 100 million
tracks through Apple's iTunes
music site. But according to Apple on Wednesday, only about 5 million
free songs have been redeemed."
So... 95 million valid codes left, where's the code generator? :-)
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
I drink Diet Pepsi, so I opted for cancer instead.
In the St. Louis area, the local Pepsi bottler ran a promo giving away free Blues tickets instead of the iTunes promo. Right about the same time as the Blues fired their head coach during a massive slump, which they pulled out of in time to reach the playoffs and be eliminated in the first round. Pepsi sure knows how to market their product...
I'll stick with Coke, thanks.
Wow. That's fascinating. I never realized the Great Wall of China ended in Japan.
You mean you missed the big honking Pepsi logo right in the middle of the iTunes home page that said "Redeem your free song here"?
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
Alright, so all I have to say about this is, don't make a Windows version of the hack Please !! If we all agree not to port the code to windows, then all the script kiddies will be waiting for a DRM breaker that naver comes, and they might BUY some CDS. I dunno I think that what is happening with File sharing is criminal. If I go to a US court I will just pull out the legal papers from my home Countre Canda, and try to prove that online file sharing is PERFECTLY FINE. It only got a slight drop when everybody was doing it, now with this suing shit happenting, everyone is back in the red. So what the hell is the problem? It's not illegal, it's fine, and content proveders. WE know you need money.. I will all works itself out, lets just stop the madness. Please?
was to have given away 100 million tracks through Apple's iTunes music site. But according to Apple on Wednesday, only about 5 million free songs have been redeemed."
So iTunes is a failure.
Let's close it up. Unplug the servers and shut down the site.
They haven't sold enough Macs either, so let's close that down too. Can't make a dime unless they're the #1 record-setting, fastest-growing business in the history of civilization.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Don't forget free quality pr0n, we want that too!
And like they say: If you can't give cancer to a white lab rat, you're just not trying.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Houston was the same way. I got hooked when my first three all won. Six out of the nine bottles I bought were winners. Then my wife, in an amazing display of pity, gave me an iTMS gift certificate because she knows how much I prefer Coke.