Yes, but there is already software out there to circumvent this problem. See my previous slashdot article. There is a small perl script on my website that does this and a guy named paul halloran has already improved it and has written mp3 cataloging software for it which can be found on his website.
It's simply an unreliable medium these days -- you never know if your mail got there or not, because it could have been silently dropped with no bounce message sent.
Re:Can this really be considered a "hack"?
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Is it a hack? It allows you to listen to streams that you are not supposed to. I'd say that's a hack.
Is it the product of reverse-engineering? Of course it is. I don't quite understand what you are getting at with that google link of yours. Yes, certainly XML is well documented and publicly available, but XML is not the protocol. The protocol only *uses* XML. There *is* such a thing as something being easy to reverse-engineer, and in this case it was fairly easy for me to, but the results are sweet. I can finally listen to BassDrive on my sterio. Yay!
Fortunately, IBM has learned from it's mistakes and actually has very ethical business practices now imo, despite their enormous size. They seem to be prospering well. If only Microsoft could learn from big blue... Somehow I can't see that happening.
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In fact there is no mention of IBM anywhere in the entire article! As if motorola single-handedly developed the PowerPC architecture...
Yes, but there is already software out there to circumvent this problem. See my previous slashdot article. There is a small perl script on my website that does this and a guy named paul halloran has already improved it and has written mp3 cataloging software for it which can be found on his website.
Is it a hack? It allows you to listen to streams that you are not supposed to. I'd say that's a hack. Is it the product of reverse-engineering? Of course it is. I don't quite understand what you are getting at with that google link of yours. Yes, certainly XML is well documented and publicly available, but XML is not the protocol. The protocol only *uses* XML. There *is* such a thing as something being easy to reverse-engineer, and in this case it was fairly easy for me to, but the results are sweet. I can finally listen to BassDrive on my sterio. Yay!
Fortunately, IBM has learned from it's mistakes and actually has very ethical business practices now imo, despite their enormous size. They seem to be prospering well. If only Microsoft could learn from big blue... Somehow I can't see that happening.