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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."
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.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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?