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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!"
One Steve Jobs gets the death penalty for copyright infringement legalized.
Oh, don't worry. They will.
...I would be chastising you for inappropriate use of the "Ironic" tag. :)
I dunno what that is. So i'll say yes.
1. Make software that breaks old version of iTunes
2. Make software that breaks new version of iTunes
3. Released version that breaks old iTunes
4. Wait for iTunes users to be forced to upgrade
5. Immmediatly release version that breaks new iTunes
6. Impress people
7. ????
8. Profit!
Good thing this was Apple.
Any other company would have just had him killed already.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
(TechnoPolitical rhetoric for the modern age).
My digital rights don't need management.
Because its yuppie-chic?
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
...that some math guy in india is behind all this.
Perhaps he should have titled his blog "So slashdot me"
People arent using his stuff to 'pirate' music, they are using it to develop... um... homebrew games... on their iPods... yeah, thats it!
PyMusick could send any public key it wants, but if it doesn't know the private key it doesn't do it any good.
If you actually read the parent post in full and thought about it for a moment, you'd know that he supposed that the private key were reverse-engineered out of iTunes -- not exactly a hard thing to do, given that it's necessarily included in every copy.
Ok- now I see what kind of a moron I am dealing with.
One bad thing about ad hominems -- they tend to backfire.
MTV has obtained exclusive contracts such that certain music videos could only be found on MTV.
MTV still plays videos?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
In the long run, that is a false option. More and more CDs are copy protected and eventually there will be no more cds made, just as they no longer make LPs
Wow. All this brand new vinyl I bought the other day must be a figment of my imagination. Time to lay off the acid...
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Fairly mainstream? Radiohead is the epitome of mainstream. Offspring was the epitome of mainstream.
Two-minute penalty.
It's just that "Jon" is, like, a 25% optimization over "John", with the same information content! (Maybe a 33.333% improvment, depending on your point of reference)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
you're impeccably correct;
:-P
Hmm... why do I feel like I've been vaguely insulted?
such as M-Audio, RME, and other companies
Thanx for the new audio keywords. Gotta keep my google primed at all times.
yes, i talk like this when i've been drinking.
Well don't just stand there, pass one over. It'll loosen up the works for this code-merge I have to get through tonight. (...must quit reading slashdot...must work...*urgk!*)
Steve J.: What happen ? ....
iTune Dept: Somebody set up us the PyMusique
iTune Dept: We get signal.
Steve J.: What !
iTune Dept: DVD Jon website turn on.
Steve J.: It's you !!
DVD Jon: How are you gentlemen !!
DVD Jon: All your iTune are belong to us.
DVD Jon: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Steve J.: What you say !!
DVD Jon: You have no chance to survive make your time.
DVD Jon: Ha Ha Ha Ha
iTune Dept: Captain !!*
Steve J.: Break out every 'LandSharks'!!
Steve J.: You know what you doing.
Steve J.: File suit.
Steve J.: For great PROFIT.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
There actually *is* civilization in Europe!