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How To Play Your iTunes Music On Other Systems
ptorrone writes "Engadget has a step-by-step for the non-uber geek on how to play your purchased music from iTunes on other systems. To be clear, this isn't a way to take music you bought and give it to someone else, this is so you can listen to your own purchased music on other systems or devices. In fact, your personal info is still in the file."
I've purchased more music off of iTunes in the two months since I got my iPod than I have in the last 5 years. Apple has gotten about $70 dollars so far off of iTunes from my wife and I, which isn't bad considering my less than legit ways in the past...
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hymn (the tool talked about in this walk through) is PlayFair. It's been renamed and a new author is working on it. Also, the latest release keeps your Apple ID in the file so if you have it on a P2P network your asking for trouble.
"hymm decodes the songs you have purchased using the key from your iPod and/or your operating system and make a new file which is not protected, it keeps the cover art and song data as part of the file. Since this is using your key, you can only do this for your songs, which I personally think is fair- they're the songs you bought, you should be able to put them on your other computers or devices."
I don't know, even if that doesn't technically violate fair use, it comes really close. He [the author] is right though: they're the songs you bought, you should be able to put them on your other computers.
It's a flaw in Apple's implementation of iTunes on Windows, nothing in the least inherant about the Windows platform.
> I find it ironic (though perhaps humorous!) that this hack is most simply implemented on a Windows platform. Note that on Mac et al., you have to have an iPod, and have it plugged in, because that's where the decrypted keys come from.
Have you even bothered to look at the code?
The keys are stored ENCRYPTED on the iPod, just like they're stored encrypted under Windows as well as MacOS X.
> Windows is more easily hacked.
Do you have a problem understanding the difference between Windows and iTunes?
iTunes for Windows is not Windows, it's iTunes.
If apple's contract told you to rob a bank, would you?
Some companies (especially ones with '$' in their name) are infamous for TOSs that severely overstep sane boundaries which may become legal boundaries (by precedent) if this winds up in court.
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On a Windows based machine:
Step 1: Click on file
Step 1: Press Control-C
Step 1: Press Control-V
I don't know about you... but I'd call this copying.
If you use an application to do it and in the process of copying it strips DRM information it is still copying, regardless of if it is not distributed outside of your PC. And remember, copyright does not come into play on this as contract law (ie the agreement between you and Apple governing your purchase of songs) supersedes copyright law in this case.
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i really like itunes. the layout is great, and the integration of itunes music store is fantastic because of the ease of use, speed of download, etc. it is slightly annoying that the songs are encrypted. if my other mp3 player could read these files, i wouldn't have any complaints. perhaps the solution is to send e-mail/letters to your favorite mp3 player company and request they release firmware upgrades for your players so that the itunes format is supported.
Where does the above say anything about copyright law? Your response to me would have been an appropriate reply, but fair use, as I said, doesn't belong in the discussion, at least until you've dispensed with the TOS discussion. (And quoting the law would probably still be overkill at that point.)
It seems like only a small step to remove the Apple ID from the decrypted file, hmm? I'm not advocating piracy but.. someone has to say this, 'cos it's what's going through plenty of people's minds.
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Is it no less a waste of time to burn iTunes songs to CDs and rip them? If anything, decoding this way is more in the spirit of Fairplay than burn and rip, as it maintains the ownership info.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
"You are, at that point, engaging in copyright violation"
No, you are not. You might be in breach of contract, but you are not engaging in copyright violation. On the contrary. Copyright explicitly grants you the right to make copies on other media.
IANAL but I know that much.
BTW I am part of a record label and while I don't condone piracy, I think Fair Use is extremely important. I think FairPlay violates Fair Use. I don't think that's the end of the world, but if I can or must, I'll circumvent it.
I think, therefore I am...I think.
Once again quoting from the Apple Terms of Sale...
REFUND POLICY
All Sales are final.
If you violate the contract/agreement/etc midway through, it does not nullify past events. That's not unlike me breaking my lease and expecting my landlord to refund my last 12 months worth of rent. Such an idea is preposterous, and many such contracts have provisions for should either party break the contract. A cell phone contract is a perfect example, a customer of Verizon has agreed that should the customer break the contract, that they will pay a $175 dollar early termination fee.
Breaking of the contract simply means that all granted rights under it become null and void (ie your 'rights' to the purchased music) and that future relations will require a new contract. Something either party can reject based on past experiances. Something either party can reject based on past experiences.
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Yes, it is. We even have a term for it: "breach of contract."
A contract can never strip you of certain rights guaranteed to you, even if it specifically outlines you as giving them up. Fair use is one of those rights as recognized by the courts.
NO CARRIER
For instance, I know someone who rented an apartment which has no window in the bedroom for escape from fire. But it is in a very nice place at below average rent, so he puts up with it. Legally, that apartment should not have been rented at all.
I rented an apartment whose lease had an illegal clause concerning a cleaning deposit. I ignored it and signed it anyway, and when time came to leave, and they tried to enforce it, I took them to small claims court and scared them so much I got an additional several hundred dollars out of them to dismiss it in such a manner that they were not on record of having even come to court.
Illegal contarcts can not be enforced. Whether or not the iTunes contract is illegal or has illegal clauses is another matter.
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Private replay of works is not an action which is controlled by copyright. Full stop.
You're referring to public performance, which it does cover. It also covers distribution.
In the iTunes case, distribution was done with respect to the copyright and the license. If you later breach the copyright, it says you lose your rights as granted by the copyright. Sadly I'm not lawyerly enough to know what that means your legal status as to the files and private use of them is. However, you aren't either.
Suffice it to say, to be legally sure, you'd probably have to consult a lawyer, and maybe a bunch of dissenting lawyers and the agencies they represent would have to consult each other and a judge and over a lawsuit.
In practical terms, of course, I really doubt anyone will ever care about your private reproduction and media shifting, so it doesn't really matter.
-josh
Well, re-compiling is certainly an option -- if you have the skills. Compiling the Darwin kernel is no easy task -- there are lots of dependencies. It can be done (I've done it for Darwin 6 - Jaguar), but it is not something a user would be able to do (unlike Linux). BTW: If anyone's interested, I found the blocking code in the Darwin kernel. Search for 'PT_DENY_ATTACH' -- it's in the ptrace() call. You'll need an Apple login ID to view it. (Free, but you have to agree to the terms of the ASPL.)
Do you have to actually burn a CD, or can you just make an ISO image on your hard disk, then mount the ISO image and rip directly from that?
Who said anything about making it illegal? If I buy a hard-to-find song on my wife's iMac, and I want to hear it on my Linux box, I'll happily do what it takes to make that happen. I keep hearing the tired suggestion to "just burn it to a CD, then rip it into an MP3. Get this: I can get music for free from the radio. I pay for it so that I can get good sound quality. Transcoding from one lossy algorithm to another does not fall within my definition of acceptable quality.
Some people will use these tools to share music without authorization. Some of us will use them to listen to the music that we paid for when and where we want to listen to it.
I'm not out to rip anybody off. I just want to hear some tunes. Understand?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I have an even easier solution that works just as well as yours does:
1. Open iTunes.
2. Find your M4P file in the Purchased Music playlist.
3. Click play.
That's it!
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