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Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again
ikewillis writes "Remember earlier today when Apple released an update supposedly blocking the hole in iTMS recently discovered by Jon Johansen? News.com reports that he has already worked around the update, and iTMS can now be accessed from non-Windows/MacOS X systems using the new version of his PyMusique software. You can view his blog entry on the issue (ironically titled So Sue Me). More power to you, Jon!"
You seem to have missed the entire point.
You need to learn to comprehend what you read, BOY. Good God, you're a cockbag.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
I really love how linux-support always gets thrown into the mix.
Linux users don't pay for stuff. I highly dobut that apple would profit from a linux iTunes. they know this.
of course, they could release a simple command line player that authenticates against the iTMS server, but I dobut that. iTunes for linux is almost definitely a no.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
This is nonsensical. Most people that hate GPL violators, hate them because the GPL violators are performing the same act as the DRR (Digital Rights Restriction) groups are doing.
.Net). Ya know, if someone was accessing my service/app from something other than what I intended, I'd be pissed! And if they kept fucking with it, then screw them, the gloves come off.
.99 anymore! It'll be worse - like $2 a song or fucking DVDs that cost $20 or some crap like it was before!
C'mon man, there is a CLEAR difference to those tech companies that pilfer the code and fucking Apple who sells its OWN service! Remember, they made iTMS and didn't lift code from RhythmBox or X11Amp or whatever - they fucking made their own deal.
I agree copyright laws are fucked and I don't care for DRM just as much as the next guy. But, hell, just buy the song and fucking run JHymn on it for christsake! It's even cross platform, imagine that (no, I'm not talking about f-ing Mono or
And that's the point of this - DVD Jon is using an unauthorized client - NO purposefully making one. Why not fuck with Walmart or M$ or Napster or Real?! Why Apple?! I mean, they're the only company out of the bunch (cept Real Helix) that actually gives back to the cause and is acutally making some sort of difference in a way that makes people happy?! I'm no zealot or apologist or whatever and I know they're not perfect and f-all big companies, but still, this is like shooting oneself in the foot!
You guys that are all cheerleading for Jon are gonna get the REAL assholes pissed off - the record companies - and then they're gonna pull something and then I and others won't be able to even get songs for
I believe in the whole society and submitting art and shit like that, but after reading some of these posts - it's ridiculous! No bones against Jon, but fuckin-eh, I DO NOT want to have the Microsft or Walmart music stores the only digital games in town. Think about it!! In this case it is the lesser of the evils.
I'm glad you like your comfortable leash.
Basically Jon get's some limelight and for a very short while Apple are beaten. Meanwhile people who actually like and use iTunes legitimately find that Apple has to restrict the service more and more. And so Jon is screwing it up for everyone else.
As some one who works in an industry where DRM and encryption is a fact of life I know that it's a balance between complexity and the *appearance* of security. Basically you make it difficult for the average joe to crack the system, complex enough to satisfy the media supplies, but simple enough to make it cost effective. It's a status quo that is fine as long as no one breaks it, or at least only a very few break it.
Jon is breaking that status quo and to achieve what? Not success as Apple just plugs the gaps. The only solution can be short term fame and self gratification. He's a twat!