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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!"
My business faces ruin. CD sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as many CDs as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I bought the store about 12 years ago. It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three discs world wide is a pirate. On The Internet, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of music in just minutes. It has the potential to destroy the music industry, from artists, to record companies to stores like my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike CDs, it's harder to copy books over The Internet.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the record industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If pirates want to steal from the music industry, then the music industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable record store will allow you to buy another CD. If the pirates can't buy the CDS to begin with, then they won't be able to copy them over The Internet, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I have just written a letter to the RIAA outlining my proposal. Suing pirates one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention pirates use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of pirates would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to a hotline, similar to TIPS. Once we know the size of the problem, the police and other law enforcement agencies will be forced to take piracy seriously. They have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy?
This evening, my daughters a
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let me see, hacked DRM, scandonavian (according to his name) I bet he's only 16... no i didnt RTFA... yet.
serenity now!
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.
Just lock this disgusting Swede away forever and be done with it.
How can these sandniggers dare defy the carefully and freedom-preserving copyright-laws of our beloved United States?
They should be forced to watch their own crappy movies and listen to their own ridiculous, non-sensical music.
I even demand that they use this shitty operative system that their fellow Linux Torfland has ripped off SCO; they should of course not be allowed even that, but using this obsolete piece of software is still better than letting them steal valuable copies of the most advanced operative system Windows XP Home Edition, so letting them use their crippled SCO-Unix is the lesser evil.
Wrong. And One of the most Worthless statements in the story.
Try to do society a favor by thinking before you type.
In other news, I will no longer be going to court for any speeding tickets I get. Since I already went once, and was cleared of charges, it obviously means I can do so again and again.
See, this does not work, because nobody cares for a caucasian fag like you. Even if the media cared for you, you will not bea figure of positive identification, but just a random fag.
Sorry.
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!
Not true at all!
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Sosumi PREDATES system 7, in fact it is from a system 6 3rd aprty video game apple stole it from !!!
If you read all the posts in the thread before commenting you would have learned that!
system 7!?!? No!
The powerPC mac that shipped well after Sosumi debuted in system seven and years after Sosumi SHIPPED in "Crystal Quest" game for Mac !!!
Sosumi was a sound resource stolen from a game released over a year earlier called "Crystal Quest" a game for system 6.
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairw
The sound was stolen by apple and then renamed Sosumi and placed into System 7.
Facts are facts.
And dirty lies are sometimes trivial to prove. Any copy of Crystal Quest will show how correct I am.
Patrick Buckland never did sue apple over the sound effect. (He was the game author)
That game had lots of cool sound effects by the way.
The best was the sound for winning a level it was a comical "Ahhhhh!" sound.
Why is it that 6 people posted five different fake origins of the Sosumi story tonight and I alone seem to know the damned truth? Sheesh! At least i TRIED to educate people this time. (six times no less). Someone else will have to carry the torch. I am getting tired of trying to correct all the misinformation and anon posters have a limit to how many factual corrections they can post in 24 hours (10 corrections maximum).
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
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No seriously, this is cool. I wish I lived in Norway. Or Amsterdam maybe.
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
The bikini - security through obscurity since 1943
rootofEVIL you are WRONG! It was Crystal Quest SFX
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Not true at all!
Sosumi PREDATES system 7, in fact it is from a system 6, 3rd aprty video game apple stole it from !!!
That is why apple called the sound "sosumi"
If you read all the posts in the thread before commenting you would have learned that!
system 7!?!? No!
The powerPC mac that shipped well after Sosumi debuted in system seven and years after Sosumi SHIPPED in "Crystal Quest" game for Mac !!!
Sosumi was a sound resource stolen from a game released over a year earlier called "Crystal Quest" a game for system 6.
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairw
The sound was stolen by apple and then renamed Sosumi and placed into System 7.
Facts are facts.
And dirty lies are sometimes trivial to prove. Any copy of Crystal Quest will show how correct I am.
Patrick Buckland never did sue apple over the sound effect. (He was the game author)
That game had lots of cool sound effects by the way.
The best was the sound for winning a level it was a comical "Ahhhhh!" sound.
Why is it that 6 people posted five different fake origins of the Sosumi story tonight and I alone seem to know the damned truth? Sheesh! At least i TRIED to educate people this time. (eight times no less). Someone else will have to carry the torch. I am getting tired of trying to correct all the misinformation and anon posters have a limit to how many factual corrections they can post in 24 hours (10 corrections maximum).
rootofevil your post was posted longh after my FACTUAL origins of the sound taken from Crystal Quest.
This means you are an idiot who cannot read nor moderate.
I am shocked you have a +3 and not ONE person modded up my factual post, and instead modded up your swill.