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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!"
he wrote the GUI for the DVD decryption tool he's famous for, he didn't break CSS.
Actually, its not jon's fault. It's yours and apple's. You can't say that him breaking iTunes is forcing you to install quicktime and thrash your system. No... that is your fault for buying an apple product which forces you to install quicktime. It just so happens that Jon wrote a patch that caused apple to write a patch and then caused you to download crappy software from apple...
It is your own fault for supporting a company who installs trash software onto your system when you don't want it. If you can't handle that iTunes installs stuff you don't like, then I ask you:
WHY DID YOU INSTALL ITUNES IN THE FIRST PLACE?
let me guess, you are a sucker for the hype that is the iPod. You must be popular with your other ipod buddies.
Your ignorance is infinitely greater than you realize.
Tell me something, is this something Slashdotters just instinctively post? Do you post this because somebody else posted it, who posted it because somebody else posted it? Did I merely skim over the agreement when I created my account, you know, the part that says, "By reading this site, you agree to have no respect for copyrights or the rights of companies to make a profit, even though that profit is what enables them to pay you so you can buy the neon lights and peltier cooler for your overclocked AMD..."?
Snap out of it people! Stop the Slashdot group think. DRM isn't half as bad as you think, and if you'd just stop echoing what your l33t buds told you to say, you'd realize this. You like getting paid for your hard work? Guess what, so do the artists, producers, marketers, retailers, distributers, and everybody else involved in bring you music to market. DRM only exists because of thieving Bohemians like you that don't respect copyrights. You made this bed, now lie in it before they hand you something even less comfortable. Bunch of ingrates!
There ain't no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something.
Who in the fuck modded that as "insightful"?
Yes...that will show those people paying $1/song that they should not buy any more music from Apple!
So what part of burning the file to CD and ripping it to another player requires Apple's permission?
What part of the DRM is preventing you from putting an excerpt on your web page? Last I checked, you could still burn it to CD, you can still use the digital transfer and you can still use the analogue hole.
Oh you mean you can't do it with a specific piece of software or via a specific method that you prefer? Last I looked, that wasn't part of fair use.
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
And it's standard legal practice. You ever read a lease before?
Yes the burning and exporting capabilities are an accomodation but I still dont' need Apple's permission to do it. I just can do it with their software.
What it boils down to is this is a contract you AGREED to. If you didn't AGREE with it, you shouldn't use the service. Simple.
So tell me again though, what fair use rights can you not exercise now? Can you make an archival copy of what you purchased? Yes, command-d.
Can you put a sample on a website? Yes, using any number of methods.
What right is missing?
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I would love any of these pontificating constitutional lawyer wannabees to try to convince me that if they were allowed to *Re-sell* thier music under a no-drm model they would actually delete the origianl copy from thier hard-drives. Unlikely. All I hear is nonsense moralising backed up by nothing more than a greedy desire to have as much music as possible without paying for it.
Yeah Yeah you say that you would still pay for stuff on ITunes if it were not DRM'd but I doubt it. If you could get that latest Kylie Minouge hot number from your buddy for nix then you would.
When will slashdot cease being a platform for music pirates to whinge.... grrrrr
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