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iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked
luaine writes with an Engadget article claiming the cracking of iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM. From the article: "[A] new app called QTFairUse6 looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 - 6.0.5 files of their chastely protection." At present this is a Windows-only tool for those who are "not afraid to get [their] hands dirty with a little python." Engadget does not provide a link to QTFairUse6, and neither will we. We've run several DRM stories recently, but it's been 19 months since Cracking iTunes' DRM with JHymn.
Any why won't you provide a link to the software?
yeah, i broke it too - burn to cd, rip to MP3. Done and done
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You don't need a special software tool if you own a Mac. This is a fairly old trick - and time consuming - but it works pretty well. If you have the license for the piece of music (if you're on one of the five computers licensed to listen to the track), you can open it without problems in iMovie, save it as an AIFF file (uncompressed audio), and then import it into iTunes as an mp3 or whatever you choose. It works pretty well - and it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
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Here you go: http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 3
burning to a cd and ripping dosen't quite for that..
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iTunes wasn't cracked. Fairplay DRM was cracked.
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iTunes wasn't cracked. The DRM shackling people to itunes was cracked.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
iMovie works by decompressing and recompressing the music, resulting in a loss of quality. Apparently, this new software works by extracting the compressed stream after it has been decrypted, giving it the distinct advantage of being lossless.
Of course, it doesn't do me any good, since it only works in Windows...
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Sure, everybody will link to the tool that cracks Windows Media DRM, but when it's time to crack FairPlay people start getting self-righteous.
As much as I hate DRM, by buying the music from iTunes in the first place you are clearly stating your position that you will tolerate DRM. It's like buying a Ford and ripping the Ford emblem off the car and thinking that you're "sticking it to Ford." I have news for you: Ford (Apple) is laughing all the way to the bank.
Yahoo and MSN show results. Google does not. Good to see they're doing no evil.
I think this was tried before.... and the response from Apple was that if the file was downloaded, it was paid for. So, deleting the DRM, while not in Apple's best interest, isn't exactly the same as the WMA subscription problem, where songs that are "rented" could be owned. Let's face it, if you really want something for free, there are lots of places to get it... I just don't see the point of removing the DRM from a paid for iTunes file, because FairPlay does seem pretty generous with what you are allowed to do with it.
iTunes wasn't cracked. Fairplay DRM was cracked.
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And it wasn't even that. According to this forum entry, all the hack does is tie into the audio "output" side of iTunes and skim off the decoded AAC stream, writing it to a file. One step above grabbing it at the sound card, but certainly not a crack of the DRM itself.
What's astounding is how many people seem to consider this "a step in the right direction," when it's really a "step in a totally different direction that will do nothing for actually breaking the DRM itself." Then again, maybe I shouldn't be *too* surprised....
Complain to the executives that mandate DRM on all purchased media. Why do so many people act as though Apple invented DRM?
Yea that's not a crack at all, especially if it still takes the time of the length of the song to convert. Any newbie programmer could write something that plays a song in iTunes and records it with the soundcard in a batch process.
FairPlay wasn't cracked.. this python script attaches to iTunes.exe..... reads the memory when you play a track and creates a dump for the AAC file... its a very nice scripts... but again... nothing was cracked
Correct, thanks for noticing.
They wont give the link,but will give the software's name for everyone to find! Haha.
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Apple is the biggest vendor of DRM-laden music and video files today. It doesn't matter if they invented the technology; by foisting it upon its customers, Apple opens themselves to criticism.
That's the part that makes it worthless.
Music from iTunes is already compressed a fair bit. Yes, you'll lose some fidelity, but the copy to CD and re-rip has always been there if you're not too picky but seriously DRM-phobic.
But other than single-track purchasing, the whole point of the ITMS is convenience. If you want music a single click away it's there. If you want it a click away, but are willing to go through hoops to remove the DRM you kinda lost the convenience part, so what's the point?
If you wanted cheap music, at least an ablbum at a time, borrowing or buying used CDs, ripping them yourself then returning ( or re-selling ) them is an option. If you look at the price of a used CD, minus the price you get selling it back the next day, it's going to be cost competitive with ITMS purchase. Heck, splitting the price of a new album with 2 friends and you all rip it before selling it is going to be a better price. Illegal, yes, but no more so than de-DRMing
So if that's an option, why would you buy from ITMS in the first place if you're going to go through pains to de-DRM it? Poor impulse control? If you can get it for the same price ( or cheaper ) by getting the CD and ripping yourself AND less hassle than removing DRM, why not do just that?
Which is why I think any DRM removal that is more than a single click just silly.
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Not quite. It grabs the audio when it is decrypted, but not yet decoded. I.e. it grabs the raw AAC frames. These can then be inserted into a proper container file and tagged with metadata. This process needs to be automated, but it should be soon.
The good thing about this approach is that, unlike capturing the audio, it accesses it before the AAC stream has been decompressed, meaning that you don't have to recompress it, adding artefacts.
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Except that's not what this does. It grabs the decrypted, but still encoded file from iTunes' memory. You get an exact copy of the file without the encryption (or any of the meta data, but that's probably just a matter of time).
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I was always one of the people who never really cared that iTunes music was DRM'd. I figured that (shortsightedly) I would always use an iPod or burn CDs. I was wrong. When I go running, I like music so I take my iPod- but I dont like extra weight so I dont take my wireless phone. So, despite spending about $1000 at the ITMS, I am considering getting a Chocolate, so I can have my phone and MP3 player with me in one package. (I would have gotten a RokR, but seriously, why would I spend a ton of money for a phone that holds 100 songs?!?!) If I get a Chocolate, would it be wrong to convert my DRM'd iTunes music so I could use it with the Chocolate? Should I just eat the $1000 I spent at ITMS? (Please save the sarcastic comments about how I shouldn't have bought DRM'd music- I admit it, I was an idiot to do that...) And another point, I am not a marketing expert, but if they made a white iPod phone with at least a few gigs of memory, do they not realize that they would sell a ton ofthem? Why cant they just make an iPod phone? 90% of college kids would buy them.
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If everyone did this, as you suggest, Napster would go out of business.
Better for you NOT to advertise this solution and instead take advantage of the fact that not everyone does this.
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Is it wrong? No.
Is it illegal? Probably.
Was it really dumb to spend $1,000 on DRMed music? Yep.
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The GPL exists to protect rights; DRM exists to take them away. Duh.
Wired had a good print article on that a few months ago. Summary: you have to get a cell carrier to distribute the phones, and none of them want to let you upload music to your phone for free instead of making you pay to send it through their data network.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Why cant they just make an iPod phone? 90% of college kids would buy them.
Blame the wireless providers that want their version of lock-in.
Seriously, why don't we have a phone market like Europe? I shouldn't buy my phone from Verizon Wireless -- I should buy my phone at Target and then pick a compatible provider for that phone. No contracts, no provider lock-in.
If we had that sort of market nothing would stop Apple from making a CDMA iPod phone for VZW/Sprint or a GSM iPod phone for T-Mobile/Cingular.
Fat chance in hell the cellular providers give up their device lock-in until regulation forces them to do so.
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Engadget had no problem posting links to the WM-DRM crack, in multiple articles, including advocating its use, showing how to use it, and urging MS to not patch the hole. Yet, now they refuse to post a link to the FairPlay crack? What's the deal?
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Landline phones in the US used to be rented from your telephone provider. If you wanted another phone, you had to call them and they would be out sometime "between 8am and 6pm." Most people under 30 don't believe this, and even to me, looking back, it seems ridiculous.
I hope that very soon kids will look at us the same way with the same disbelief and say "wait, you mean you had to get your cell phone directly from your wireless provider?!?!?"
Yes, you can get a cell phone and manipulate it in the same way that in the old days you could get an "illegal" extra landline phone, but this is rare.
Anyhow, you are right in your post. But keep in mind that songs for the Chocolate are $1.99 if you pull them right out of the air onto your phone, but 99cents if you buy the songs from your computer and wire them onto the Chocolate. So I am hoping we will see an iPod phone someday, i.e. and iPod with a phone, not a phone with sort-of-an-iPod-that-only-holds-100-songs like the rokr was (is? Are they still making that thing?)
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and the headline never stated this. It says "iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked". Jeez, most people don't read TFA but come on, at least read TFH.
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Landline phones in the US used to be rented from your telephone provider.
You are talking to somebody whose Grandmother and Father worked for Ma Bell. I know all about those days!
Yes, you can get a cell phone and manipulate it in the same way that in the old days you could get an "illegal" extra landline phone, but this is rare.
How? VZW won't even activate a phone for you nowadays unless you get it from them. Even a completely unlocked CDMA phone direct from Motorola. If you get the phone from them it's crippled to their network (even if you pay full price for it!).
Anyhow, you are right in your post. But keep in mind that songs for the Chocolate are $1.99 if you pull them right out of the air onto your phone, but 99cents if you buy the songs from your computer and wire them onto the Chocolate.
What if I already have the mp3s? Can I transfer them over for free? My experience with VZW tells me that I probably can't.... but I've been wrong before.
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
oh ok, sort of like the old cracks that would sniff the file contents while being downloaded before the DRM was placed on the streams. Thanks for clearing that up.
It originally said iTunes v6 Cracked. See the author's acknowledgement below.
Whoops.. it's above, now. ;)
Ok, that makes a little more sense then. Bad headline authors!
"But this one goes to 11!"
The good thing about this approach is that, unlike capturing the audio, it accesses it before the AAC stream has been decompressed, meaning that you don't have to recompress it, adding artefacts.
Yeah but the bad thing about this approach is it further encourages companies to dream of a future Trusted Computing world. While it's nice to be able to remove the DRM, it would be much nicer if that was done by actually cracking the DRM and releasing the code. THAT would help to prove to companies that DRM is fundamentally insecure and encourage them to drop the whole idea.
Hacking an applications or OS vulnerability = OKAY
Cracking the DRM itself = much better
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Or could it be that, the number of people willing to brake the law, and circumvent(steal) reciprocation to the artists, are those who prefer Microsoft for use then those who prefer Apple.
Could the higher percentage of people willing to use a tool to crack Windows Media DRM, over those people who prefer to use software (itunes) made by Apple, actually relate to a higher percentage of people with lower moral standards are those who prefer Windows over Apple software????
I find it an interesting corelation. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Wow, no DMCA notice, just plain suppressed. Can't say I'm surprised.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Hey, we Americans don't want any of that Socialist crap like they have in Europe! We're all about capitalism here, and free markets with businesses unfettered by government regulation! If the market wanted unlocked, non-crippled phones, we'd have them. But the market has decided, and it wants crippled phones!
Pah! Those Europeans and their "free choice" crap... Next thing you know, they'll be talking about how they need more than two political parties to choose from!
And people talk about how Apple's DRM is "kind and gentle." Of course it is--they've got to get the camel's nose underneath the tent and get people thinking that "DRM isn't all that bad" before they start to turn the screws. And I don't buy that "but it's the record industry" crap, either. They're not going to leave money on the table, and for the future, their choices are to sell music online for a reasonable price or die.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
It's really awesome.
Also illegal unless you're in Russia, and if you think iTMS is ripping off the artists... oy veh.
You are talking to somebody whose Grandmother and Father worked for Ma Bell. I know all about those days!
Cool- but tell some under 25s how you used to get a phone, and you will get a blank stare and disbelief... Kids these days also dont understand how a phone could be a murder weapon in so many old movies- Hitting someone over the head with 2 pounds of plastic doesn't have the same effect.
How? VZW won't even activate a phone for you nowadays unless you get it from them. Even a completely unlocked CDMA phone direct from Motorola. If you get the phone from them it's crippled to their network (even if you pay full price for it!). Anytime I say that you have to buy a phone from your provider, someone gets on my case and provides a long post about how you can solder this connection and add this card or that and use any phone for anything. My comment was just to appease those people
What if I already have the mp3s? Can I transfer them over for free? My experience with VZW tells me that I probably can't.... but I've been wrong before.
You bring up something I hadn't considered- can I add all my old unprotected MP3s to a Chocolate. That would be a deal breaker. I cant find an answer on Verizon's website.
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http://clusty.com/search?query=QTFairUse6
/files/31103061/QTFairUse6-1.0.zip.html on rapidshare.de, but that would be wrong.
I would also provide a link to
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The best solution would be a convenient service through which I could buy the music I want unencumbered by DRM. I don't know of one.
That reminds me, I just got a refresh on eMusic, time to download some legal MP3s for 25c each.
What were you saying?
I'm not familiar with Verizon, but, not sure why you couldn't. I have the Samsung Blade from SprintPCS. And while they don't make it easy for you, or give you instructions, with a little research on the web, I can easily bluetooth upload mp3's, images, ringtones I make..etc to the phone.
I can't understand why you couldn't do this with about any phone out there, regardless of carrier. Maybe try to do a little research, I found tons of forums out there with information. True, you gotta sift through a good bit of it..but, it is findable.
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Find, how? With a search engine. Just remember, Google and AOL (and others) are keeping a history of all your searches... which I'm sure the RIAA would love to subpoena at some point. Because everyone with this tool is obviously a criminal. Right? Right???
If it's the only reason the iTMS uses DRM is because of "the executives", then why don't labels get to choose whether or not they want DRM on songs they sell through iTunes? Every single song sold on iTunes has DRM forced on it, whether the artist/label wants it or not.
Furthermore, look at it from Apple's point of view. From what I've heard, Apple makes a relatively small amount of money directly from iTunes, whereas they make a huge amount of money from selling iPods. Now think about it. What company wouldn't kill for the opportunity to artifically force consumers to keep buying their product forever? What happens when it's time to buy a new portable music player and the hundreds of songs you bought won't play on anything that's not an iPod?
And to think people wonder why Apple won't license FairPlay to other companies.
How badly can a song REALLY degrade even if you compress it with *cough* *choke* *wheeze* mp3? *gasp* (eh, not for me, thank you very much; if I go lossy I go ogg) Not much, really, actually. It's certainly tons better than copying to audio tape.
Once you do it, you lock in that DRM-free quality level forever and it never degrades again.
Of course you can use APE or FLAC and bypass the loss of quality altogether.
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Then why not sell multiband GSM phones on the Open Market(tm) and then have other carriers' customers yank the SIM card and stick it in your phone? Besides, I've read that the major nationwide GSM carriers in the United States (Cingular and T-Mobile) aren't nearly as restrictive with phone function lockdown as the CDMA carriers (Sprint and Verizon).
There is nothing fundamentally insecure about DRM except for the fact that it needs to be decrypted on the client. So a tool like this is taking advantage of the insecure aspect of DRM by waiting until the client decrypts the audio. Cracking the encryption algorithm just shows that there is a weakness in the algorithm (or in the protection of the keys, as seen in the WMA case).
The solution to stopping pure digital copies (ie not digitial -> analog -> digital) is to do all of the DRM and audio/video decoding in hardware (your private key is generated and stored in the sound card and can't be retrieved). Portable devices can use schemes like this, but computers won't unless somebody decides to break backward compatibility.
And JHymn hasn't worked since, like, 18 months ago. Certainly hasn't worked in iTunes 6 nor do I think iTunes 5 either......
Which is precisly why many people have not upgraded their iTunes install.
I had the same problem. I did not want DRM music and my pants keep falling down from all the crap in my pockets. I had a phone and MP3 player and a PDA - which is just stupid. I got a Treo 650, a 2 GB memory card, softick audio gateway for the music and pocket tunes. I since have started using the provided realplayer on the Treo. It is a PDA phone and MP3 player. As for the Itunes part Try AllofMp3.com. 10 cents a song, no DRM. Supposedly legal, I dunno. If it seems to good to be true ..... Have not found a problem yet. They seem to have everything I look for.
Maybe the Treo 700w would be better? It has Windows on it, and I know how everyone loves that.
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"The iPod makes money. The iTunes Music Store doesn't." Apple won't die (in the music industry) as long as the iPod does well, and it's plainly obvious that iTunes has virtually nothing to do with the success of the iPod. I don't like DRM any more than the next guy, but I'm not about to claim it's the sole reason Apple isn't six feet under.
Which is why it's important for as many honest people as possible to download this and check it out. Then the criminals might just slip under the noise floor.
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The sell music reasonable or die dichotomy was meant to apply to the music industry, not to Apple. Reading over what I posted, I see I could have made that less ambiguous.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Which is dumb, cause the iTunes store won't let you buy things with iTunes 4 anymore......
Look, there are a ton of ways to get unprotected files if you REALLY REALLY want them rather than going though this slow process here...
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As I just posted in another comment, the average iPod owner purchases 21 songs from iTunes. Compare that to the thousands the iPod actually holds, and it's obvious that iTunes isn't selling iPods. iPods are selling iTunes.
And no, Apple shouldn't license FairPlay to RealNetworks (or whatever they call themselves these days).
You can get a 2 GB MicroSD card for this:
http://www.cingular.com/SLVR_iTunes/
The phone has a horrible keyboard and is huge. Really, it's huge. It's as big as a razr unfolded, and those phones are much larger than people realize. However, it still does what you want.
Most people, quite possibly yourself included, don't realize how big it is until comparisons are made, so perhaps you could just avoid that. It comes with an adapter to use your own headphones, and if you look around on eBay you can find one unlocked for your carrier (assuming it's a GSM carrier).
This isn't new, btw, it's over a year old.
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>>If everyone did this, as you suggest, Napster would go out of business.
What? If everyone did this, Napster would have a lot of customers and recurring income.
I can't speak for your specific model of phone, but I can use Bluetooth to send files, including mp3's, to my Samsung D407. Samsung even has a free Windows program that lets you do some useful phone management (contact list, etc.) over Bluetooth.
My guess? Not many, since the fallout is significantly different with a subscription model.
Or, to go back further, back when an entire game fit in 48 KiB of memory, when a cracker would install special cards in his Apple II that would dump the memory to a binary file on an unprotected disk to defeat the various copy protection schemes of 5.25" disks.
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ANYthing that generates sound in OSX can be saved to a file in many different formats.
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I think you are trying to make a sarcastic remark on how we all want capitalism (I'm American), yet despise this DRM situation. However, one important note is that legislation like the DRM is hardly capitalistic -- if anything, its socialism, enforcing a policy. With a more pure system of capitalism, you would never find the government essentially protecting corporations with legislation -- that leads to monopolies.
And no money goes to the artists from used CD sales. The artists get screwed left and right. But you don't hear anyone arguing to ban those sales. ( Well, maybe the RIAA now and then )
However, one important note is that legislation like the DRM is hardly capitalistic -- if anything, its socialism, enforcing a policy. With a more pure system of capitalism, you would never find the government essentially protecting corporations with legislation -- that leads to monopolies.
Right, but ask patriotic Americans if we're a socialist country, and they'll outright deny in spite of all the evidence. Meanwhile, any comparison with European countries (e.g., European cellphone customers apparently have far more freedom than we do) will just bring remarks about how they're "Socialist".
As for monopolies, look how many Americans (especially the right-wingers) were upset about the Microsoft monopoly trial. In America, if you do anything to reign in a monopoly, you're "punishing success". Just watch; I'll probably have 5 replies to this very message saying this. So under your definition of capitalism, monopolies may be bad, but according to most Americans, monopolies are great and shouldn't be bothered. Heck, I still here people complain about the Bell breakup, wishing we had a single phone company again so they wouldn't have to be bothered with having to choose between different providers.
I've been using unlocked phones with cingular for a long time, I just walked into the cingular store a couple days ago and got a new sim for free and put 20 bucks on it for yet another phone. Free mobile to mobile (cingular network only of course) and it's pretty cheap and easy to use. I wish it were cheaper with data plans n such but still, it's getting there.
Maybe in the next 5 years we'll see a more open market for cell phones, keep in mind cell phones are a fairly new technology and most people don't know that you can get a "non-cingular" or "non-tmobile" phone. It's odd for me to hear "have you seen that new tmobile phone?" but hopefully soon we'll hear more of "hey have you seen that new sony ericsson phone?".
But if it's morally OK to buy from allofmp3 (where the artists get nothing), then isn't it equally OK to just download music from Gnutella/Kazaa/whatever (where the artists also get nothing)?
Is it illegal? Probably.
What makes you think this would be illegal? Removing DRM is not illegal in and of itself. Having tools to remove DRM is not illegal in and of itself. Cracking encryption is not even illegal, in and of itself (although this just uses your already owned key to decrypt and make a copy of the content of the files, it does not actually break the encryption). The only thing illegal in this scenario that I can think of is publishing the tools used to do it, which may or may not be illegal according to the very vague DMCA. So, download the tools, but don't use bittorrent or redistribute the tools and I don't see how anyone can claim you did anything illegal.
However, much like the Fair Use clause in copyright law, the proponents of DMCA invariably choose to overlook this clause in the DMCA. DVD Jon is in the clear when it comes to the DMCA because of this clause, only it seems that no cases have been defended citing this clause. I do not worry at ALL about ripping DVDs for use on my PocketPC and posting about it on here because that clause specifically allows me to use DeCSS to bypass DRM for the purpose of interoperability with other software (Windows media Player on PocketPC 2000), and it allows me to use DeCSS (and derivatives) to view DRMed video on alternate software such as Linux. Note that it does NOT allow me to bypass DRM for the purpose of violating copyright law, but making backups and transcoding and/or timeshifting (e.g., bypassing HDCP when I buy an HDTV) are all specifically excepted from liability/prosecution under the DMCA.
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As usual americans don't have to brains to distinguish detail. The post was really about monopolies and dominance of business interests over consumer interests. Refering to consumer/citizen interests as socialism is just the usual hawkish bullcrap.
Indeed Verizon wants you to pay $4 per song, with crumy (ie, less than mp3) quality.
Fortuantly for my wife (especially since i didn't know vcast isn't even available here) you can buy some software to unlock the phone (v3m razr) and do whatever you want with it. Check out http://www.cellcables.com/.
Um, well, it goes like this:
1) Subscribe, pay for a month or two
2) Download every track available
3) Strip DRM from every track
4) Stop subscription when all tracks are downloaded
5) Wait until more music is available
On the way people will be distributing and sharing the unprotected tracks, too, further decreasing the need for a Napster subscription.
If there was a way to instantly photocopy books, it is like you advocating everyone go to the library, copy every book you want, and never buy another book again, at least until a sizable collection of new books is available.
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How? VZW won't even activate a phone for you nowadays unless you get it from them. Even a completely unlocked CDMA phone direct from Motorola. If you get the phone from them it's crippled to their network (even if you pay full price for it!).
Unicel and most others are willing to do that though. To uncriple your VZ crap phone, check out cellcables.com.
Back in 2003, Itunes music store probably WASN'T making money -- but it's no longer 2003.
There's a reason Apple won't license their DRM to other music stores -- and it's not because they lack the technical expertise to do so.
If it's the only reason the iTMS uses DRM is because of "the executives", then why don't labels get to choose whether or not they want DRM on songs they sell through iTunes?
RIAA is the one insisting on DRM.
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Tell it to the DVD Shrink folks.
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In the UofK I can get myself most of the non chart (read non-crap) CDs for £5 in my local HMV, the fact that iTunes charges £7 for a DRMed version of the album without the little shiny jewel case seems a bit silly and I'm amazed how thick the ipod generation seems to be.
Depends on how you interpret / how far you want to trust the DMCA's Reverse Engineering exception. To my knowledge, it's never been tested in court. Without precedent, it's a bit of a murky path to go down. Then again, one hopes that the FBI has better things to do than chase down people who are transcoding their music from one format to another for their own use. (Actually I think they have better things to do than any sort of copyright enforcement...why don't they come back once the Wars on Terror, Drugs, and Poverty are over?)
Anyway, my point was more that regardless of whether it's legal or not, I think it's morally defensible, and therefore whether to do it or not is a straightforward risk/benefit calculation, based on your odds of getting caught and the resulting punishment.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's wrong to do, if the law is wrong in making it illegal.
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Not all artists who publish via the iTMS are part of the RIAA. (or their labels, or whatever is the best description).
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I just searched for it, appears to be indexed now. Evidently the googlebot was just slower on the draw than the other two.
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Depends on how you interpret / how far you want to trust the DMCA's Reverse Engineering exception.
Not at all. The DMCA makes illegal the distribution of tools that can be used to break encryption used in copyright protection schemes, not creating or using said tools.
Don't make the mistake of calling anything coercive "socialism". DRM and the legal framework that protects it is about ensuring profitability of a narrow interest at the expense of the public will. This is more properly defined as authoritarian and corporatist.
And why shouldn't Apple license FairPlay (to Real or otherwise)? Not doing so only opens them to monopoly charges and infringes on consumer Fair Use rights.
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My guess is 0. People that use/enjoy iTunes Music store do so because it is easy, fast and of good quality (in their book). I can't think of one person that buys music of iTunes because it has FairPlay DRM on it.
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I did this. I bought an unlocked GSM phone and moved my SIM card to it. Worked fine, but was quite expensive and required some research to get the proper North American dual band phone (tri-bands with two European bands and one of the two North American bands are much more common and typically sold as "world phones"). Try convincing your friends (the ones who haven't lived in Europe long enough to buy a cell phone there) that this is the way to go when they get a new phone "for free" every few years. (Indeed, one of the big reasons I finally did it was that my locked phone broke a month out of warranty with seven months left on my stupid contract. I'm currently trying pre-paid + VoIP.) So, yes, it won't happen due to the will of the general public.
I wonder if It's possible for Microsoft to create a sort of digital signature for drivers that will verify that your CD writer is actually a CD writer, not a hard disk redirector.
this.
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So what if your favorite band is playing at an establishment that the state has deemed a bar and you're not old enough to go into a bar?
My wife's U2 iPod won't play iTunes purchased songs when the battery runs down. It takes a full re-format/re-install and frankly I'm sick of doing it for her. Apple suggested that I just purchase another iPod since her's was out of warranty. I told Apple I had a much cheaper solution that involved not purchasing from iTunes anymore. I'll have to give QTFairUse6 a try to see if that fixes the problem since my wife wasn't too keen on my first solution (see seems to think the "convenience" is worth it).
Never held the ROKR, heard it sucked, but Motorola also makes the RAZR and SLVR, both of which boast compatibility with iTunes.
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6) Download entire Napster library via bittorrent.
I don't see this as nearly as big an issue...you buy a song for $0.99 ... then you rip off the DRM (instead or re-ripping from CD)...net to Apple? You paid $0.99 for a song and did what you want with it.
Now mvoe to Microsoft DRM...you pay $5.99 for unlimited access to a million Napster songs. You then rip the DRM. Net to Napster? You paid $5.99 for 1,000,000 songs.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Actually, if you wanted to crack the drm this would be a big first step. Now you have the encrypted text (the original file) and the clear text (the AAC frames). That should make it much easier to break the encryption.
...so I can have my phone and MP3 player with me in one package.
Um..., why?
When I'm strapped in to the iPod I have the perfect excuse for not answering the phone -- couldn't hear it ringing.
If your player is your phone, you lose that excuse.
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>The GPL exists to protect rights; DRM exists to take them away. Duh.
you're kidding, right?
DRM, whatever its form, exists to protect the rights of publishers. remember, the same laws that give people fair use rights also give publishers the right to profit from their creations. but people have proven conclusively that they won't honor copyright laws when it comes to music and movies, directly impinging on publishers' rights. and so the media companies keep racheting-up their technological schemes, trying to protect their publishing rights. yes, their schemes sometimes (often) encroach on our rights in the process. but, that doesn't mean that's the *intent* of DRM.
and if people treated source code the way they treated music, the GPL (which also, yes, protects publishers' rights) would be considered as quaint as the 'copyrighted' flag in MP3s - we'd all look at it and chuckle, as we copied the source for our own GPL-violating uses.
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Always a fun topic.
I always wondered what would have happen to some of the world's major religions if copyright law in its current convoluted form existed at the time of Moses. Would the Ten Commandments be copyrighted? Would Gutenberg have had to pay royalties? Would he have had to pay God? Check or money order? Would churches now have to get a volume license to relate the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah? Would Cain and Abel have gotten 'points'? Gross or net? And when Cain killed Abel, who bought up his rights from his estate?
If the first letter of Paul to the Ephesians was read out loud to the Ephesians by someone other than Paul without Paul consenting in writing, could Paul sue for damages? Or does this qualify as fair use?
If God liked DRM, would the first Bibles be like a big sheaf of blank pages, and when you pay your licensing fee, the words magically appear (only partially illegible due to compression loss)? Or would he just temporarily blind you every time you looked at it until you paid.
Along the same lines, you know how people like to quote scripture? Would God give you a case of laryngitis if you tried to quote scripture without accepting a EULA first? Does the fact that God is omniscient and knows what you're thinking constitute a 'rootkit'?
DRM, always a fun topic.
I have an LGVX8300, and it was a trivial effort to turn on MP3 functionality. You just had to hit "menu" and then "zero". Enter in all zeroes for the service code. The service menu has an option to turn on MP3 functionality.
I believe that the Chocolate runs a very similar OS to the 8300, so you should be able do the same thing to enable mp3 functionality.
Good luck,Montag
Speaking as the Brit, I think we'd be happy to just have one that was electable.
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I found it very easily on the first page of google.
Even if you can't play them now-- sometime- probably within 24 months, you will be able to strip them of DRM.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Fair use doesn't mean that you can violate the DMCA in order to copy a file for personal use. Bad analogy: the fact that you own a copy of a CD doesn't make it legal for you to "borrow" someone's CD drive in order to listen to it, even though fair use would allow you to play it on you own computer. Similarly, although fair use allows you to copy an DRM'ed song in order to listen to it, if you can somehow do that legally, it does not give you permission to violate a law in order to do so. Decrypting DRM'ed stuff is illegal, plain and simple. The DMCA is a LAW, same as copyright laws. What you're saying is "what I'm doing is legal, because although I am violating one law, I am not violating another."
:-).
On the other hand, if your moral code doesn't coincide with the legal system and you don't have moral qualms breaking the law, be my guest. But don't think that your justifications have any legal meaning. When the DRM Gestapo come to your door to arrest you, you will have nothing to say.
Disclaimer: I watch DVDs on my Linux machine, which is just as illegal
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Really? Even in the Soviet Union, they had one party to choose from--the Communist party!
I don't think the Russian Communist Party falls into my definition of 'electable.'
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Yep, that's what I was attempting to make fun of in my earlier post. Around many Americans, if you try to point out that something is done much better in Europe, you'll just receive a nasty reply about how Europe is Socialist, so by extension, doing anything in a way that emulates Europe is apparently Socialistic.
Your comment about brains is the crux of the problem in America, and why maybe America should get rid of its representative government and move to an authoritarian one. Democracies, historically, only work with an educated populace. America is mostly uneducated, much like rural China, so that form of government just doesn't work here as we're currently seeing. That's probably why originally, only landowners were allowed to vote. Maybe we should require a college degree to vote. Or at least a high school diploma. Heck, even a basic skills test (what is 10 divided by 4? What does the word "benevolent" mean?) would probably weed out most of the voting-age population (including many who have high school diplomas).
"My restrictive, DRM-encumbered, overpriced music files are more secure than yours. Neener neener."
"Nuh uh. Read TFA."
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Hang on - I'm wrong - I found it:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93
"Make sure you deauthorize your computer before you upgrade your RAM, hard disk or other system components. If you do not deauthorize your computer before you upgrade these components, one computer may use multiple authorizations. If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months."
So yes you're totally right. Still to keep files from flying all over the P2P I can get the gist of it. I've never had to juggle that many pc's myself, and I've got quite a few (but only 2 are my workhorses).
Why would honest people want to help criminals?
My solution to DRM is simple: Don't buy DRM'd products. Buy the CD and rip it. You can usually get CD's on the cheap off Amazon.com. This doesn't work for the super-duper new music that's coming out, but there are a lot of great old CD's too. However, the chances are good enough that if a CD isn't cheap on Amazon then it's probably being played on the radio, and if it's being played on the radio I never feel bad about time-shifting my listening experience courtesy of P2P or friendly sharing.
The Chocolate sucks as a phone, fails as a music player, and it's from LG to boot.
So your options are.
1. Jog without a cellphone. Cost zero.
2. Buy a new cell that plays music but lose all your itms tracks. Cost $1400+
Why not just buy a Shuffle for jogging? You'll be able to carry your cell, and at a hundred bucks, it's the cheapest way to go since you've locked yourself into iTunes.
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"Of course if record companies are getting paid, but artists still getting screwed [slashdot.org], it's "OK" to use iTunes too?"
Slippery slope. Getting $0.10 a track is infinitely better than getting zero. Even income of a couple of hundred bucks a month from online sales can make a difference when it's time to pay the rent.
Perhaps a couple of hundred bucks a month might not make a difference to you. Or, perhaps you are of the belief that your favorite artists are wealthy enough that they don't need the extra couple of hundred bucks. But those are dangerous assumptions to make, particularly in regard to somebody else's livelihood.
Pirate if you want -- but don't assume that the artist won't miss the money.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
Why any service? Why would I want to actually purchase music that is by definition not the real thing since it is in a lossy format? Why don't the record companies simply charge a fair price for CDs, people will buy them and encode themselves? I download here and there. If it's something I like, I usually go find the CD used and buy it so that I can encode it to MY tastes.
I don't understand why people buy stuff that isn't lossless.
Better yet, let's just merge all companies into one.
Ta da
Of course if record companies are getting paid, but artists still getting screwed, it's "OK" to use iTunes too?
:)
There's always eMusic.
If you buy an E1 ROKR, a V3I RAZR or an L7 SLVR, you can put iTunes on them with a hack that unlocks it to have more songs.
They need a lawyer and a judge who bothered to actually READ the DMCA.
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The people have decided they are okay with crippled phones. If they weren't, the CDMA providers would lose a lot of sales. People still buy from them, though.
Most people would probably rather just buy a phone and have the service anyway.
I guess that whole thing about "the people" having the power is foolish, and we should give it all to our benevolent overlords to tell us what we want.
The people have decided to mainly vote for two parties. No reasonable legislation can change this.
Remember, the market reflects what the people really want, and are willing to work for. Pure democracy represents what the people write down on a piece of paper that they want, without ever doing anything to get it. Socialism, assuming everyone is a good person, reflects what the rulers think the people want. If they aren't all good, it reflects what the rulers want.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
get [their] hands dirty with a little python
Am I the only one who was thinking something entirely unrelated to a programming language?
Dude, just burn your purchased music to a regular CD-R and re-rip it. [[ Like it says in the iTunes help ]]
The trip to Red Book Audio and back removes the DRM. It's tedious, but easy. Use a CD-RW for economy.
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Interesting discussion. It had crossed my mind that you could pull the data straight off the iTunes visualizer, but a quick peek at the relevant docs shows that whilst you *can* get the data, it's downrezzed to 8 bits. OTOH, it does also pass a 512 point FFT to ya ... Heh. There's always a catch.
Seriously, just burn the playlist to a CD. It's legal and easy.
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it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
Do that before you format.
In the event of a catastrophic crash (well, five catastrophic crashes) then log into the Store and click Deauthorize All.
And next time, come up with a better excuse. Like, "if your wife happens to own a non-iPod music player" or "your wife wants to play her music on her Linux box."
The US free market: two halves of a government-granted duopoly are free to set the market price.
Can I transfer them over for free? My experience with VZW tells me that I probably can't
my VZW LG vx8100 also unlocks mp3 with "menu 0000", and has a miny SD card, either a SD card reader, and the adapter that comes with most minysd cards to dump mp3's, or the USB adapter, and the free bitpim
you can solder this connection and add this card or
maybe I was just lucky, I bought a phone from ebay, pulled the cdma card located under the battery (pops right out) shoved it into the new phone (pops right in), then started calling.
Complain to the executives that mandate DRM on all purchased media. Why do so many people act as though Apple invented DRM?
Maybe because Apple uses the DRM to lock people into the iTunes/iPod combo?
Actually, both are there to protect the rights of the content creators/publishers. The GPL protects certain rights by a license (the right to demand that your code always be freely available). DRM does it by technology (the right to keep people from making your product freely available).
Only public domains gives away all rights.
Stop! Dremel time!
However, much like the Fair Use clause in copyright law, the proponents of DMCA invariably choose to overlook this clause in the DMCA. DVD Jon is in the clear when it comes to the DMCA because of this clause, only it seems that no cases have been defended citing this clause.
No, DVD-Jon is in the clear of the DMCA because he's not from the US, and that defense has been cited by DVD copying apps. The defense didn't hold and they were found not guilty of copyright infringement, but guilty of violating the DRM protection clauses. You haven't heard of anyone successfully using that defense because it does not work
I do not worry at ALL about ripping DVDs for use on my PocketPC and posting about it on here because that clause specifically allows me to use DeCSS to bypass DRM for the purpose of introperability (...)
No, here's the catch-22. Distributing DeCSS has been decleared illegal. Hell, even linking to DeCSS has been decleared illegal (2600 case). And while I don't have a specific case to quote, even posessing DeCSS is illegal under the DMCA. Hell, even source code (a creative expression and copyrightable) is illegal, the first amendment defense has also been tried and struck down.
The interoperability and reverse engineering clauses are meaningless because they require you to do it using fairie wings and pixie dust. Now, that might not be the way you read the DMCA, but it is the way it is enforced in courts of law. That is the essence of DMCA, you have the rights to fair use, but it's in a DRM safe so you can't do it (DMCA). You have the right to open the safe (DMCA exceptions), but you need the key so you can't do it (current precedent).
Let me try to make the following as clear as possible: If you could legally have the tools to break DRM, then the courts would have to decide afterwards what was legal or not based on intent. That would essentially render the whole DRM protection clauses meaningless and reduce it back to pre-DMCA copyright law. The whole point of the DMCA is to outlaw decryption tools, making tools like DeCSS ex facto (well, at least before any copyright infringement) illegal to posess.
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Not here in China. China is a free market- there are still carrier subsidies for service plans, but the phones are sold unlocked (not sure how that works, but it sure is a great thing). There is also an open market for cell phones so that you can pick the one that suits you best without having to buy directly from the carrier (but subsidies don't apply unless you do) unless you're in CDMA. You can still load MP3s just like a normal MP3 player and features are hardly locked down at all, but one carrier has a monopoly on CDMA. This may be because neither carrier has network speeds fast enough to try to sell music through, though. Also, something I wish that carriers in the US would implement is escalating subsidies- buy a pricier service plan, get a bigger discount on the phone (taking note that all local cell phones are sold unlocked). The problem with this is that you are locked to a service plan- you have to pay a fee to change your service plan before your contract is up (2 years everywhere- no 1-year contracts).
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Cell carriers do distribute phones with mini- and micro-SD card slots, and the ability to load your mp3 files without a problem. Here is an example.
"The interoperability and reverse engineering clauses are meaningless because they require you to do it using fairie wings and pixie dust."
Not exactly. Some dude in another country did the heavy lifting on this one, and if I were to, say, finish up the work (by making it transparent, for example), and it took me no reversing work to do so, it's technically 'clean' so far as the DMCA and Apple's licensing goes. I am, after all, not reversing iTunes; that work's been done for me. All I'm doing is packaging the end result.
Also, if you look at the QTFairUse6 code, iTunes itself is unlocking the data; you're just copying it out just after it gets decrypted, but just before it gets decoded. You don't need the keys at all; you're sneaking it out from under the gatekeeper's nose.
110100 1101000 1101000 1100110 0 1101111 1101000 1100011 1
Without meaning to sound anal, I do not think that the term "cracked" is adequate in this case: The encryption cyphers have not been compromised or factored.
This Python program fishes for frames in iTunes memory after the decryption and before the decoding process and writes them out to a file. This does yield an unencoded AAC file in the end, but the process is real-time and therefore very time-consuming for large libraries.
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CDMA card? Does this card look like a SIM card? If so, then I thought that only China did that. It would make it possible to buy the Korean LG Chocolate from China which comes MP3-capable and put in the CDMA card to start using the phone.
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Expensive? Oh right, you want BOTH North American bands. That's what's keeping your cost up- if you can get by with only 1900MHz, it'll be much cheaper for you (I can find the V801SH- the Japanese version of the Sharp TM150- for less than $70 here in China if I look on eBay (Chinese site only), and about $110 if I were to go to a store.
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Fair use allows me to use content that I purchased.
I don't distribute.
I don't download via torrent.
I pay for the content. And I should be able to use it where I please.
= Grow a brain...
Because not everyone is Mr. Sonic Ears.
I can tell a crappy MP3 encode of something.
But I'd bet that if I did a double blind test with you, you would not be able to pick out which file was which.
= Grow a brain...
By stopping your subscription, you've lost your license to the music. If you still subscribe, you still have a license to use the music.
I don't mind paying to keep a perpetual license on the content I use.
The book analogy isn't a good one.
If I could download ALL the books I wanted for $14.99 a month, and there were a way to de-drm them (so I could read them on whatever little LCD device I wanted), I'd probably subscribe to that, too..
Photocopying the book destroys the format (and familiarity with) the book.
Your analogy is more (but not totally) like someone taking a laptop to the library, "borrowing" the CD's and ripping them on site. That's stealing. You do not have a license to copy that.
= Grow a brain...
No, Napster would become the de-facto standard. You can download basically an unlimited amount of music for $14.99 a month.
.. however why? It's ONLY $14.99 a month. That's less than I spend on almost anything else. In fact, it's more than I saved by switching to Vonage. Just pay the $14.99 a month .. and you're legal.
It could feel glamorous to unsubscribe and keep all the MP3 files
It's one less premium channel on the cable box (which, btw I watch very little of).
The software I use is closed source, however it's FAQ says that it is not actually defeating the DRM. My guess is that it uses the Windows Media Player codec to decrypt the file, and then runs the digital output of WMPlayer to another file.
WinAMP will play a Windows Media file. You think they use their own code to do so?
= Grow a brain...
I have a Verizon Wireless Chocolate phone, and I was able to put MP3 files on the microSD card and play them without having to do *anything* to the phone. I pulled the microSD card out, put it in a SanDisk reader and plugged it into my PC. a simple drag and drop later I had a bunch of MP3 files on the card which when re-inserted into the phone showed up on the menu and played just fine from the phone. No Windows Media Player. No translation. Just played. Now getting something other than VCast applications to work.... that appears a bit harder. Somehow I think that the world of Trusted Computing where every app must be signed is going to be just like the BREW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREW) world of Verizon phones.
ya, sim card is the proper term, thanks.
my understanding is that all CDMA compatabile handsets must use the same SIM card (doesn't have to be easily removed though.)
Again, my understanding (whoping success rate of 1 success out of 1 attempt) is if you got any CDMA capable handset from VZW, that can be placed into any other CDMA phone, and your number goes with it (compatible network blah blah blah)
That choclate phone is really pretty (and linux, whatever), but with only a 128mb of shared memory, I am not about to trade in my stereo mp3 playing VX8100 with a 512MB compact-sd for less than $150 (picked phone up on ebay for total price of $85 + $10 shipping + $50 for 512 MB sim card, no contract required...)
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Yes, well, just because you think it should be legal doesn't mean it is. You might be doing something justifiable, and I have no problem with you doing it, but don't think that "fair use" gives you the right to do it. "Fair use" gives you the right to legally use content that you have purchased, but it doesn't override the fact that bypassing DRM is illegal. DMCA is a Very Bad Law BECAUSE it effectively eliminates the concept of Fair Use by making many fair uses illegal. Fair Use is not some kind of inalienable right. It is not as if the constitution says "Congress shall not make any law that prevents consumers from doing what they please with their own music, as long as they don't distribute it."
Of course, if you mean "fair use" in the sense of "this is what I think I should be able to do", then of course it's fair use. But then "fair use" becomes synonymous with "conscience": My conscience allows me to use content that I purchased. Fair use, in the legal sense, does not allow you to do anything forbidden by the DMCA.
One of the big problems in America is that the general public fails to see how bad of a law the DMCA is.
You're right, of course, but try telling that bit about the US economy being heavily regulated to the "free trade" right-wingers out there. They won't believe you. Or they'll blame it all on the Democrats.
Is there an easy way to find which one you need? I was under the impression that most of the US was covered by a single band, but that a few areas did use the other one; since I move around a bit, I thought better safe than sorry. It isn't all that hard to find a cheap dual-band phone that's been unlocked, which is what I should have done rather than purchasing a never-been-locked phone, but it requires some research.
In a democracy, the rulers are the majority (what you labeled as "the people")
In a perfect world, democratic socialism reflects what the majority think everyone wants. In the real world, it reflects what the majority immediately desire.
Freedom is the only system that truly reflects what the people want, and takes into account how much they want it.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Is it wrong? No ($0)
Is it illegal? $500,000 and five years in prison
Realizing it was really dumb to spend $1,000 on DRMed music? Priceless.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Even so, the RIAA probably has enough clout through the content that does involve them that they can demand blanket DRM-ing.
"The use-mention distinction" is not "enforced here."
I wrote a script in Perl to automate the process. It includes tagging the DRM-free files with the same tags as the original. This includes artwork, lyrics, etc. Download the script here
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing. -- Thomas Jefferson
All I can say is that California is all 1900- for everyhwere else, the general rule is that "middle of nowhere" areas are covered by 850 while urman areas are covered by 1900.
OSx86 FTW