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iTunes DRM Hole Closed
FrYGuY101 writes "As recently covered on Slashdot, there was a hole in iTunes which allowed music to be acquired from the iTunes Music Store without Apple's DRM applied. Well, Apple has just released an update which closes this exploit."
From the original story:
He explains that his program works by bypassing iTunes which adds the DRM itself at the end of the transfer.
I don't think it would be trivial to change the time that they add the DRM. So, is this a true fix that won't be broken again quickly? Or is this just a small patch that changes something just significant enough to break the Pymusique application?
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Seems that Slashdot has become the standard bug-report mechanism across numerous OS's and companies.
I'm with you. I would cheerfully pay an extra ten cents (or so) per song and put up with the longer download times if I had the option to get iTMS stuff encoded with either FLAC or the "Apple Lossless Format."
In fact, I'm going to send an e-mail to the iTMS sales support folks saying exactly that, and I suggest you do the same.
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What I'd like to see is iTunes to have a 'compress when copying to portable' option, and then have Apple sell lossless.
I don't mind wasting the gigs for lossless on my desktop, but I would object to wasting them on my 1st generation 5Gig iPod. Allowing this option would let me store the master copies at home, but still carry a fair amount of them around portably.
Cheers,
Ian
There's already an option for that for the ipod shuffle. I'd imagine that there's some way to either enable it for other ipods, or bug apple enough that they'll add it for other ipods like they did with the shuffle music and other options for the 4th gen ipods.
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I'd prefer to see FLAC support in iTunes. I know its probably not something they'd support on the iPod, but a lot of live sets are offered in FLAC format and it'd be great to be able to import the FLAC files directly into iTunes and only convert them to MP3/AAC if I wanted them playable on the iPod.
But to make real money, or do it without the risk, it's the cartel or nothing.
Justin.
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That was merely a light-hearted joke, followed by an honest question, not flamebait... but since there are some moderators out there acting like asses, I will fight fire with fire. I've got Karma to burn. Re-posting my currently -1 comment at 2. Mod me down, and I'll just do it again:
I imagine you could make 30-50,000 a year between sales of your music and merchandise and show tickets, if you had a decent content delivery system and you kept putting out good music the money would keep flowing in.. Just so you know i am also an indie rocker, and no, i wouldnt sign a contract with the RIAA...there ARE better ways, if youa are good and love the music you CAN make a living without being a whore.
Yeah, but then I would have to put the effort into making good music. I just want to force feed the crap I'm making now into the public conscious, become wealthy, and act like a total ass for the rest of my life.
So, do you make 30-50K per year as an indie artist, or are you just "imagining" that you can?
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How was being able to PURCHASE something in a form that the user actually wanted an exploit?
How is circumventing the seller's terms and obtaining the goods in a form not intended for sale not an exploit?
Here's an idea: go to a restaurant with your favorite mug. Walk into the kitchen, ladle some soup into your mug. On your way out, leave the price of a bowl of soup on the counter. See what happens.
The sad thing to me is relationship your are willing to put yourself in, in relation to the music industry. I mean, if you buy a CD you could rip it to any format very easily. Going through iTunes may save money in buying singles, but you get the music in a locked up format with mediocre quality (compared to CD), and the format doesn't even work on a lot of portable music players (such as my iRiver iHP-120). It would actually be easier for me to illegally download new music right now, if I wanted to actually use it the way I want. So, you put yourself into this appeasement relationship with the music industry that is basically limiting us and screwing us over for very flakey reasons. It's like "Daddy said we could get digital music if we are all good until Friday!".
To hell with that kind of attitude. They can either lose money, or they can give us what we want. Its their choice. CDs are an open format you can use anywhere. Why is it so absurd or wrong or ridiculous to expect the same in downloading music over the internet?