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iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked

Posted by michael on from the powered-by-mountain-dew dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Only five million? by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Funny
    Especially since the tracks are free
    I only got about five free songs...See, I have this odd aversion to developing type 2 diabetes that limits the amount of sugarwater I want to drink.

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    "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
  2. Re:Only five million? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I drink Diet Pepsi, so I opted for cancer instead.

  3. Re:Only five million? by Mattintosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Fantastic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. That's fascinating. I never realized the Great Wall of China ended in Japan.

  5. Re:What stopped me from downloading by ScottGant · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"?

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    "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
  6. So by cubicledrone · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
  7. Re:Hooray! by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget free quality pr0n, we want that too!

  8. Re:Only five million? by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

    And like they say: If you can't give cancer to a white lab rat, you're just not trying.

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.