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Crossplatform iTunes Sharing and Trading
An anonymous reader writes "As reported on Cnet
and others, an open source java iTunes client named ourTunes has been released under the GPL by a group of anonymous hackers. Unlike the Apple iTunes for Windows and Mac, ourTunes allows a user to queue up and save to disk the music shared by other users. Recent court rulings have held that developers of p2p file sharing software cannot be held liable for 'for any copyright infringement committed by people using their products.'"
There seems to be a handful of java DAAP clients that all look the same:
c ords: http://www.cdavies.org/applerecords.html
One2ohmygod: http://one2ohmygod.sourceforge.net/
jtunes4: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/
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and yet another called "Get It Together"
http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/
They all look the same but have varying degrees of functionality.
The two issues are unrelated. If Apple is asking Sourceforge to take down software that circumvents access control, that's a DMCA thing.
This ruling, on the other hand, says that P2P vendors cannot be generally held accountable for how some (most) may use their software. This ruling does not permit circumvention of access control, as added by DMCA
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
From the ourTunes home page ( ourtunes.sf.net: )
1) What is ourTunes?
ourTunes is the continuation of several open source projects designed to allow you to browse and download from other people's iTunes Music Shares?
2) Is this a Peer to Peer (P2P) program? Aren't those things created by Satan to steal Christmas from Baby Jesus?
It's not "really" a peer-to-peer program, because it doesn't allow you the opportunity to share any files or music.
3) Why am I not seeing any hosts? Is the whole internet dead?
There probably aren't any people on your network sharing iTunes music. ourTunes only allows you to view connections within your networks "subnet" (often the building you are currently in, maybe a little bit more). If you are running ourTunes from home, I'm sorry to say but you'll probably be pretty disappointed. It's really only a viable program where there are lots of people living on a fast network with good taste in music (*cough* college campus *cough*).
It allows you to share with other people on the same network! OMG. nothing to see here.
Come on, please don't moderate me to oblivion.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
So SATAN can take away Christmas AND find security holes in networks - whoa! The dude is just too powerful!
Umm, no, it would not.
You don't need Rendevous to use DAAP. Rendezvous makes it easy to find stuff on a local network, but all you have to do is point your DAAP client at the host sharing the music and you can play it. It's just http.
The 9th Circuit court ruling is that software developers *can* be held liable,
a) if their software did not have significant non-infringing uses, OR,
b) if the software developers are in a position of power or control over the specific infringing activity and have a right and ability to stop the infringing activity AND had knowledge of the specific infringing activity OR
c) the software developers provide material aid (such as providing computer servers) in commiting the software infringement and had knowledge of the specific infringing activity.
The 9th Circuit did not want to expand copyright law to include parties which merely produced technology with significant non-infringing uses, who had no way of preventing the piracy that did take place, and did not provide any material aid to any piracy once the piracy become known to them.
The decision (as a few others pointed out) did not give blanket immunity.
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.
http://sourceforge.net/users/whizziwig/
lead developer.
To run on Linux: .jar archive)
$ java -jar (name of
Of course, if you don't want to run in the terminal, you can create a launcher that does just that from the menu.
Haec merda tauri est. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Thats true they just hear a hell of a lot more cases then any other Circuit Court due to the fact that they have the largest territory. In fact in 2003 the 9th Ciurt had the least amount of overturns. Here.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
In windows and OS X you just click on the jar and it runs like it was an application, no command line needed.
.zip and unzip away.
As someone already said the command you want is:
"java -jar OT41.jar"
I have seen various settings for linux desktops to do the same thing.
The nice thing is this single 300k app works on any platform and has the full source inside of it. Rename the file to
ourTunes allows you to download the files to your local computer.
iTunes allows sharing no downloading.
You use ourTunes to connect to someones shared iTunes collection and copy the music you want to your local machine.
Convenience and legality. That's why many people do actually use iTunes Music Store. People who consider their time is worth something. People who value a consistent and legally bought item above an inconsistent and stolen item.
And you obviously knew yet another Internet.
Shareware's been demonized on the Wintel platform, and Open Source dominated the Unix space. But the Mac platform actually was able to maintain a healthy and viable shareware market until the rise of OS X. While companies like Ambrosia Software and Freeverse are still around, it just hasn't been the same since the politics of the other two major platforms started to overshadow the Mac culture...
Those who complain about affect & effect on
Socialism (basically what your argument comes down to) is inevitably unsuccessful when you introduce it to the flaws of humanity, and thus, is contrary to the principles of freedom this country was founded upon.
It is a given that some people work harder than others. Redistribution of wealth, the fundamental tenet of socialism, is inherantly unjust when those who produce goods and services are forced, through taxation, to subsidize those who will not.
Now I'm not going to say that Capitalism is flawless; we all know there are a lot of greedy people who lie and cheat their way into wealth. But the fact that some people have more wealth than others is not in itself proof of injustice.
In fact, the right of people to make a living however they choose to (as long as it doesn't violate someone else's rights) is another pillar of this country's founding. Now I'm not saying that people are entitled to profit or success, don't misunderstand.
However in this case, musicians and software programmers are providing products that people want, and our economic system is designed to allow them to charge money for that product. Who are you or I to tell them how they should go about that?
"Why can't artists be sponsored freely by their fans and admirers? Do a concert if you're a musician. Sell your original artwork if you are a painter."
People can do all those things, and some do! But unless you are the musician, or the programmer (or whatever), that is not your choice to make. You do not decide how others should be allowed to sell/distribute their work. Your choice is whether or not to buy their product for what they are asking, end of story.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
\Du"ress\, n. [OF. duresse, du?, hardship, severity, L. duritia, durities, fr. durus hard. See {Dure}.]
1. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
2. (Law) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
Signing a contract and then saying, "hey, I'll be inconvenienced if I have to hold up my end of the agreement!" is not the same as being forced under duress. Otherwise, we could all go and lease cars and then flip off the dealership! "I had no intention of paying tens of thousands of dollars to drive your car! I'll just motor around for free!" Rent apartments and squat! "Pay to live in your place? Your rent is so high it's unconscionable!"
Your benefit from agreeing to iTMS' terms of service is... drumroll please... the service of listening to music. If you want to hear the music performed by a star and distributed by a label, well you need to pay those involved in bringing it to you. Otherwise you are a thief.
All of this pseudo-Libertarian bullshit does a poor job of hiding the simple fact that you want things without paying for them. There is no unalienable right to use or take another's stuff simply because you want it.
Person x has something, Person y steals it, now Person x doesn't have it anymore.
This, undoubtedly is something else. IMHO, as soon as you download a file to your hard drive, it belongs to you in some way or another.
As far as the legallity is concerned, law is supposed to reflect what is 'socially acceptable' in a society. This is why prohibition was overturned, and why things like murder and the sexual exploitaton of children is illegal. The law needs to bend to a point where it is not making Average Joe Mp3 a criminal.
I think laws made against the people and with the interests of large media companies should be questioned, rather than defended just because they are law.
Lets not forget that copyright law is supposedly there to defend individuals standing up against large companies, not the other way round.
No, he is on about os x. In os x it really is a very simple UI to run apache, just 1 tickbox. After the box has been ticked, its just a matter of dumping what you want to share in the default apache folder that has already been setip by os x.