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Buying DRM-Free Songs From the ITMS
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."
But does the DRM have anything to do with the fact that my older CD players will not play any CD where I burn a mix from a playlist? I'd really like an answer to this one :) If so, I may check out DVDJon's program.
Nothing at all. The technology has changed. Home burned CD's didn't exist when your CD player was designed. Newer designs are backward compatible. Maybe it's time you bought yourself an ipod like everyone else.
If you must moderate, please moderate as irrelevent, not something bad, because I'm sure someone will find this interest
Why doesn't this guy just put an advert out asking to be bent over a table and shafted with a giant vegetable.
I mean sure you pissed them all off, so go get out the red rag and shake it some more.
Christ, i'm no apple fan, but all this will accomplish it to "fix" the broken thing by apple and cause the **AA to ask for even stronger laws and then have the US strongarm the rest of the world into accepting them!
Violating the GPL is wrong because doing so unfairly restricts users' freedoms. Breaking DRM is moral because it enhances users' freedoms.
You should realize that the GPL wasn't created with a respect for the current copyright law. Rather, it was entirely the reverse. If copyright goes away, Stallman will be satisfied. Until that time, the GPL is a stop-gap measure.
In short, there's no inconsistency in supporting "DVD Jon" and supporting the GPL. You could say that one or the other is wrong for its own reasons, but that wouldn't be an inconsistency, which is what you're clearly implying.
So the question becomes why can't I release a binary only program derrived from a GPL work? If code should be free, then I should be able to do whatever I want with it, right?
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Then do you back up your Mp3s to 8-track, then back to a WAV file, then back to a cassette tape after that?
I bet those music tracks sound AWESOME, especially since they started off lossy to begin with.
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