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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."
Airport these!
Wow! A troll mod within two minutes for stating a fact!! Apple zealots are really incredible!
Jinx Freeze!
I don't know what that means. It's something we said, as kids, when two people said the same thing at the same time.
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
I know at least six people who had their credit cards stolen through iTunes. Only idiots still use iTunes. Besides, music is here to be shared, not sold.
> Let's also remember that Apple itself could probably care less what you do with
> your music, but it has to reach some common ground with the record companies.
I think you mean could *not* care less - if they could care less then it means they are still rather concerned with what you do with the music.
I'm just wondering why this wasn't on Slashdots front page the day after the original story. I tried using PyMusique immediately and was told that my "purchase could not be made at this time" I still have six free songs waiting for me on iTunes... just waiting for a DRM free option to become available.
peace,
-Grokent
Heh. I would love to have a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Programming to go with my Bachelor of Science in Music. :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
...and nothing wrong with it either (why should it).
Dunno what the fuck "freeze" is about, but if two people said the same thing at the same time, and no-one else in that conversation has spoken since, then if one of those two says "jinx" that places the other into a stated "jinxed". While jinxed you may not speak, upon forfeit of being punched (this removes the jinxed state). The jinxed state can also be removed by anyone expect the jinxed person saying the jinxed person's name three times in quick succession. Unless of course when the jinx was placed the jinxer added the modifier "personal jinx" in which case he/she only can say the victim's name three times to remove the jinx. Which all seemed to make perfect sense when I was at school.
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*sigh* It is such a geeky pasttime to rail against the quirks of our living language. There are so many phrases that people use without having any idea what they means or where they come from. The one that always gets me is when people say "That's a whole nother thing." The word nother doesn't exist, (yet,) and so far it only seems to comfortably fit into that one phrase. Here's a good link for the google impaired.
It depends on your definition of "illegal." Merriam-Webster gives "not according to or authorized by law," and violation of a contract is not authorized by law*. Just because it is not a criminally-punishable offense does not make a given behavior legal.
* - some exceptions apply, such as contracts to perform illegal acts
Actually, while the parent was modded up as "funny" I think the poster makes a very good point. The fact is that /. has become a popular, large voice, and more importantly, is being listened to by the industry. Sure, there's always the threat of the /. effect that gives it some leverage, but still, it'a a voice that is being heard and listened to. Kuddos to /.!
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Please, do take a look at a recent post of mine on a similar topic.
In short... I am very big on ensuring contracts and rights are protected, no matter whose they are. Hell, despite being an anti-Linux and anti-oss person I was the one who discovered a potential GPL violation here where I work and when on to prove it (unfortunately).
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Moderation is very specific, off-topic is off-topic. An article about a new design Intel CPU has nothing to do with Apples decision to market two models of computers to the public. I am sorry you do not see that that these things have nothing to do with each other at all. HP has 2 different types of photo paper, do you think that would be +5 insightful in a CPU story? Those gut feeling moderations are lowering the overall usefulness of /. and the subject at hand. Moderation based on a personal feeling does not benefit anyone. If you want a /. to slide into a consumer site with little actual information from a bunch of one sided people, so be it. I'd liked the real technical people and "movers and shakers" like big project developers, business managers, and many others that add to subjects that they have some knowledge on. They do not flood every article with their believes, they add positive content to the stories that they can and add real live experience and knowledge to a subject. Those people are not going to hang around when if the current trend continues.