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iTunes DRM Hole Closed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the closeahole-whacamole dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Well... by Golias · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not everything of value in this world has a monetary value.

    Only because some things are worth more than any ammount of money, hence the term "priceless," and some things which are not worth any money at all, hense the term "worthless."

    Very few works of art in the history of mankind have been truly priceless. Most of the work coming from artists who think their stuff is priceless is actually worthless. All other art can be bought at a price. (With the exception of public domain works, which are free now, but once had a money value.)

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  2. Re:Imagine.. by dmarx · · Score: 1, Troll
    He violated the iTunes Music Store Terms of Service and Terms of Sale, breach of contract as it were, which is illegal in most countries. Apple could easily sue him for such things, not that they will.

    Would you be so defensive of EULAs, DRM, etc if this happened to, say, Microsoft? Or are only certain companies worthy of such protection? The /. community seems very selective in this regard

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  3. bad DVD John-like people? by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    He allowed us linux users to watch what we paid for.. Ya that makes him bad. You vote to take more rights from us.

    Jerk.

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  4. Re:Good for them by drew · · Score: 1, Troll

    some of us don't think $1 per song is that cheap. in fact it's more expensive than many cd's if you actually do want the whole thing. give it to me for a quarter or two per song (preferably lossless, or at least let me choose the bitrate) and i'll think about it again. i don't even really care about drm that much, as long as i can choose what player i want to play the music in- most of my existing library is in OGG format, which isn't supported in iTunes.

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  5. Re:What did Apple "just release"? by DavidLeblond · · Score: 0, Troll

    One year, 5 months, 2 weeks... who cares? That wasn't the point of my post. The AC (or was that you?) knew that, they were just being a dick and nitpicking on the part of my post that didn't matter.

    Of course this being Slashdot, I guess I should have known no intelligent conversation would result.