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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."
Why is it that people don't want to pay for software and media content? If I like something, if it has any value for me, I will pay for it, no problem. I have a job, so I can affort to pay for the stuff I want. I pay for quality. But if someone were to steal from me or my company, I will bloody well see them in court! And so, Apple and the record companies should SUE this guy.
I tried three times to not give it a credit card number when I first redeemed some caps, the first week of March. No dice. Was absolutely required to set up an iTunes account from iTunes for Windows 4.2 at that time. I was kind of upset, but used a pre-paid card with like $3 left on it to set up the account... so in the end, it was a minor hassle. I agree it would have been much easier for "winners" to redeem songs if the account setup process was easier, that took me far longer than it should have.
Wrong.
What they really wanted is convenient, electronic distribution of music at a fair price WITH A FAIR LISCENCE AND NO DRM CRIPPLE.
The message is pretty clear it seems.
We should have been
So much more by now
Too dead inside
To even know the guilt
i live for karma suicide and worship my foes. so here goes:
no you silly
Geeks invoke Fair-Use as a cop-out from facing the legal and moral responsibilities for their actions which are, IN FACT, all-too-often, either STEALING MUSIC, or illegally breaking a copyright-protection scheme. There is no bullshitting your way around this. There is no way you can argue a decent case in court for protecting your so-precious rights to fair-use, because this is not what this is about.
You wanna do something productive with your time? here are a few suggestions:
One day geeks all up in arms against Apple digital music business will have to realize the sad truth: they're not out to fight some noble battle that'll change the world for the better in a nirvana of computing where everything is free and nobody makes money. They are in fact acting like childish lifeless nerds with too much fucking time on their hands. Most DRM schemes are not hard to crack. in fact, they are easy to crack. The reason why so few people publish their work is because most people understand that online digital music sale NEEDS DRM to survive as a business model.
See it works this way: artists want money for their work, even if it means they get screwed by RIAA labels from a percentage standpoint, at least they get fame and plenty of fucking money ANYWAY. RIAA labels wants to make money off of songs. Apple wants to sell songs online. RIAA doesn't trust people to not spread around music they've purchased. Apple comes with scheme to make RIAA feel better. Agreement is reached. RIAA labels benefit, Apple benefits, and, believe it or not, WE CONSUMERS BENEFIT TOO: we consumers are no-longer stuck with buying entire albums for 2 songs we like. I don't know about you but i'm not exactly looking forward to a world where my only alternative for online music purchase is WMA-DRM'ed music, subscription services that'll render my songs useless as soon as i discontinue my service, and clumsy online stores.
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You know, here in buffalo, I saw some 20oz winners, I even got one. I couldn't give it away. No one here saw a value in it, downloading extra software that might mess up your machine, and would take up hd space to get one free file that had restricted use.
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I am surprised to find Slashdot promoting a company that has abused free software to its own ends. By taking BSD UNIX derived code they did exactly what the GPL is there to prevent. How long will it take for people to realise that the GPL is a protection for software? Then, they took advantage of the goodwill of free software developers to develop for their proprietary product.
When Apple makes Quicktime, Cocoa and Quartz free software the community can take their free software support as sincere and not a thinly veiled attempt at gaining free labour.
You can read more about the GNU project at http://www.gnu.org/.
Don't recall me (being a member of "everyone") ever saying I wanted anything like what Apple decided to provide. I think Apple decided to provide what they wanted regardless of what "everyone" else wants. Of course, that would be music that can only be used with Apple products. Who the hell wants that?