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Buying DRM-Free Songs From the ITMS

Posted by Zonk on from the enjoy-it-while-it-lasts dept.

mirko writes "Jon Johansen ("DVD Jon") has published a small program which allows the acquisition of DRM-free file from Apple's iTunes Music Store. He explains that his program works by bypassing iTunes which adds the DRM itself at the end of the transfer. His program, pymusique, is Windows-only compliant but it'd be easy to port it to other platforms."

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  1. Why is this news or stuff that matters? by bwalling · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is illegal. It isn't cool or important. RIAA music isn't free, and it isn't anyone's right or obligation to make it free. There is plenty of free music out there if you want it. Google for the South by SouthWest music festival. They put out a couple of gigs worth of free music in a torrent file. It's right up Slashdot's alley.

  2. dont make a mockery of fair use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you could very well damn have fair use,
    all you had to do was take 5 minutes and burn
    the song to a CD.

    this is not about fair use. this is about
    lazy idiots who feel entitled to anything
    they want, and counter all questions of
    morality with screaming fits.

  3. iTunes rip off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The whole iTunes thing is a rip off.

    1. Buck a song

    C'mon, do you realize how expensive that is? Holds 14,000 songs, I have to spend $14,000 dollars to fill it up?

    2. Format scks

    C'mon, I just paid my buck, now I can't listen to it through my tivo? Can't listen through it through my non-ipod music player? I have to then be 'illegal' and burn a disc, and then rip a cd? Man o man, this is painful.

  4. when linux people complain about user interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i find it ironic

  5. Re:Wouldn't it be ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    You could do what you wanted before, with Hymn.

    Funny, I did what I wanted before, too. I listened to my music in iTunes and didn't waste my time trying to be a pain in other people's asses. Lose weight, get the food off the front of your clothing, brush your teeth, use deoderant. Maybe then you'll be able to get a life and stop feeling the need to be a dickhead.

  6. Re:How useful to people who choose to use iTunes? by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ever felt like you might be an irrational, arrogant twat?

  7. Re:if you don't like the license agreement by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As user you cannot violate the GPL dumbo, go read the licence now...