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FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago Apple released iTunes 4.5. The minor changes Apple made to their Music Sharing Protocol (daap) were reverse engineered after just one day. According to a post in the Doom9 forums FairPlay version 2 has also been reverse engineered. playfair has
already been patched with the new code and is back online with FSF India providing legal support. How will Apple respond?"
It's a great day! We found a new way to screw over the one company who actually found a way to provide what everyone said they wanted: convenient, electronic distribution of music at a fair price.
But wait, that's not really what they wanted. What they really want is stores with no cash registers and libraries of thousands of pieces of music representing the creative efforts of generations of people while valuing those libraries at zero.
Oh, and they also want to complain about greed.
FSF India providing legal support
Hurrah! Finally the benefits of outsourcing are showing up.
We've outsourced our lawyers!
Where in the world did you get the idea that Apple wants iTunes shut down?
1. RIAA pulls the plug on iTunes
2. Apple (and therefore everyone else) no longer sells AAC encoded music
3. No one needs an iPod to play AAC files
4. iPod sales drop
5. Apple looses its lucrative music hardware market
iTunes and the iPod are intimately linked, kill one and the other will fester. Apple knows this and, despite currently getting the shaft on music file sales, will continue to support and protect iTunes and the FairPlay standard to maintain iPod's market.
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
So it's too inconvenient to burn & rip, even if it's legal and within the usage rules. You would rather install some code that you have no idea what's it's doing (who really looks at or can understand the source).
Who's to say they won't install some ad-ware in the next version. You'd say "the word will get out about it" well, look at how many Wintel users keep installing Gator/Claria/whatever they call themselves today.
Apple made the usage rights very generous, and as it's been said before in this thread, the more people abuse it, the more likely the RIAA will pull the plug.
Let me guess, you're an old fart stuck in your curmudgeonly ways, and you like it, too, dammit! Am I right?
Arsewipe.
There's still good music being made. All over the map. I'll mention a few things I like - Autechre, Capitol K, Ratatat, anything on the Merck Records label... but that doesn't matter. In any genre there's still good stuff. And a lot of it isn't free. Telling people to stop liking what they like and listen to free music for some political reason is just stupid and will solve no problems except your own egotistical desire to be right.
NM
Would that be as in ...
Illegal fair use?
Illegal copy I make for my wife?
Illegal copy of music I already bought so I can take it in my car without worrying about car thieves stealing my only copy?
Illegal copy on my hard drive so when the less than immortal physical CD craps out I don't have to pay for a new copy at full price?
Illegal monopoly on region codes (violates WTO)?
Illegal price fixing (RIAA)?
Please clarify who you think is behaving illegally.
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Get with the program, retard. That wasn't playfair, it was some other retarded utility. Playfair actully decrypts the encrypted files.
"I can't tell the difference between it and my lossless compressed burns when they are side by side. "
Do you understand that your "word" means nothing when its clear in blind listening tests that 128kb AAC are not close to CDs?
Why don't you just say:
"Well, I can't hear the difference, but a lot of people say they can, so I'm probably not very picky".
Or at least
"I understand why people don't like this, but honestly, iTMS is selling convenince, not quality".
Buying music from iTMS is like going to the Hyundai dealer for a car. Its not great, but presumably is a little cheaper than going to the Honda dealer to get a real car.