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DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-good-on-steve's-promise dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "On the 5-year anniversary of the iPod, Fortune Magazine has an article called Unlocking the iPod about Jon Lech Johansen's new venture. Slashdot briefly covered DoubleTwist earlier this month, and those of you who complained that he was not enabling iPod competitors to play FairPlay files will be happy to learn that according to the Fortune article he will also be going after the hardware market." From the article: "As [Johansen] and Farantzos explain DoubleTwist in a conference room they share with several other companies, he points to a sheet of printer paper tacked on the wall that has a typed quote Jobs gave the Wall Street Journal in 2002: 'If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.' As Johansen sees it, Jobs didn't follow through on this promise, so it's up to him to fix the system... Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs."

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  1. Re:Serves 'em right. by mgabrys_sf · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're assuming that the "DRM-oh-nosy" pundit actually can form his own thoughts. Every one of these bozos reads dull because they parrot out the same talking points from the same source. This isn't called thinking - but it's easier than having to exercise your brain.

    The anti-Sony fucks are pretty much in the same camp, trolling every story they can.

    I wouldn't mind haters so much if they could actually write an opinion rather than copy-paste. But I'm fucking delluding myself about the lowest-common-denominator again. Goddamn "hope for humanity" bullshit keeps getting in the way of sad and pathetic reality of it all.

    Fuck it's depressing.

  2. Re:iTunes is the real concern.. by Gentlewhisper · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This doesn't make any sense. You don't have to authorize a computer to copy the file. There are no limits on copying the file. Why should you be able to download it more than once?


    He is a Mac user, these are the same people who sit smugly on forums whole day long proclaiming how Windows is teeming with virii and spyware when all they do is click on that latest included screensaver that comes in their mailbox.
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  3. APPLE FANBOIS ARE OUTRAGED!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple fanbois only like it when Apple fucks them. When someone else fucks Apple, they get jealous!