MySpace Music Player Hacked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 16, 2006 @08:25AM from the we-don't-need-no-steenkin'-players dept.

Roy van Rijn writes to tell us about a little program called MySpace MP3 Gopher, with which you can download any song from MySpace as an MP3 even if it is marked to disable downloading. MySpace MP3 Gopher is a Windows program requiring no installation, and for those not on a Windows box the author offers an online version that anyone can run. It is hosted on his home computer so it is bound to get slashdotted rather quickly. All you need to grab a MySpace song is its "friendID," which is in every URL as a parameter. Tech-recipes has step-by-step instructions.

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This is just wrong by blake213 · 2006-09-16 08:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

As a musician with his songs on Myspace, I think this is completely unjust and horrible. I'm sure many musicians, artists and bands would agree with me when I say that if I wanted my music to be freely distributed, I would make it available for download on Myspace. This take the notion of "stealing" music to the next level; it really is stealing. Music isn't free. Live with it.

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mund freud.