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06-11-2009, 05:12 PM
|  | All Hail Jesus Frankenstein | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | Breaking iTunes
DVD-Jon, the guy that broke DVD encryption, has now broken iTunes and is offering a solution for your media on "any device". ‘DVD Jon’ Attacks Apple | Threat Level | Wired.com
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06-11-2009, 05:22 PM
|  | Booger! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Narnia
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| | | Heh, that's awesome. And it strikes at the very heart of the problem of what Apple has become. After the money has changed hands, they do all they can to tell you how to use their product and restrict it as much as possible. Oh sure, you can have fun, but only fun from the approved list.
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06-11-2009, 05:24 PM
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| | | the record companies are the culprits. Microsoft and Apple both have tightly integrated hardware/DRM/music systems.
Zune was broken a long time ago, and I'm sure iTunes was, too, but this may be the first one that is openly marketed with attorneys behind it.
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06-11-2009, 05:26 PM
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| | | It's so totalitarian, though, I'm surprised it hasn't bitten them earlier. Buy a CD, you can rip it 5 ways to Sunday and put it on your PC, in your car, on your phone, and anywhere else you want. Buy an iTune and...
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06-11-2009, 05:29 PM
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| | | it's all about the ease of it. Yes, it's easy to rip a CD, but a lot of people would rather buy it and download it (even wirelessly) and never have the physical media.
I like that both of the systems now allow DRM-free tracks, but they're both still tied to specific hardware devices.
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06-11-2009, 05:30 PM
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| | | Maybe it's just me... I prefer the physical media as an archive. Even though I never listen to it in CD form, it's good to have a backup.
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06-11-2009, 06:04 PM
|  | Bueno the Bear | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England/Barbados/Japan
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| | | Yes, I have a slew of iTunes purchased music that won't play on my computer because iTunes won't authorize it properly. It's freaking stupid, and I wish I never bought it. It won't sync to my iPod and I can't even play it on any other media player! I'm going to go download this now, and see if I can avoid using iTunes in the near future. |
06-11-2009, 06:16 PM
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| | | Yes! I can play my purchased music now! I'm gonna see what it can do with my iPod |
06-11-2009, 08:34 PM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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Originally Posted by DennyCrane  It's so totalitarian, though, I'm surprised it hasn't bitten them earlier. Buy a CD, you can rip it 5 ways to Sunday and put it on your PC, in your car, on your phone, and anywhere else you want. Buy an iTune and... | its all DRM free now. not only that, but apple is the company that made it that way. the record companies are the ones that wanted to keep it all protected and apple considered locking them out of iTunes. if anything, we owe apple a debt of gratitude on this one. |
06-11-2009, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by akabaloo Yes, I have a slew of iTunes purchased music that won't play on my computer because iTunes won't authorize it properly. It's freaking stupid, and I wish I never bought it. It won't sync to my iPod and I can't even play it on any other media player! I'm going to go download this now, and see if I can avoid using iTunes in the near future. | im sorry but you're doing something wrong. did you upgrade your library to the drm free version? | | |
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