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Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users
Will Fisher writes "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."
Yeah, Apple totally wants to steal Linux's market share... why, they might make a whole $2000 off all the Linux users who switch! This was a brilliant strategy!
This has nothing to do with anything other than:
1. not supporting iPods that have been messed with by third party software
2. keeping up the appearance of maintaining DRM/locking so the music industry remains happy
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
TEH OMG!!! Does this mean Teh Lunix's love affair with all things Apple has ended? Will Slashdotters now start bashing Apple for being a worse monopoly than teh hated Microsoft, or are their tongues buried too far up SteveJob's rear?
Tune in next time!!
I love my 80GB iPod, because it does exactly what I want it to, and nothing else. It's slim, easy to use and holds a whole lot of music and video.
Guess what, I can make it show up as a USB drive as well. But if I want to transfer files, I'd rather use my 2GB USB keychain memory instead of carrying along a big MP3-player with an extra cable.
Use things the way they were meant to be used, and don't complain if they don't do stuff they're not supposed to do.
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Don't like iTunes? Don't use it.
You Apple haters are such a bunch of whiny sissies. iTunes is for those people that WANT to manage their music, that WANT to have a well-organized library of songs and that WANT to sync their MP3-player as easily as just plugging it in.
If you want to do it the hard way, i.e. having to manually add songs to your player everytime, as well as maintaining your songs in whatever software you use, be my guest. Just don't go crying to all of us who'd rather LISTEN to our music than looking through our harddrives trying to FIND it first.
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