Probijena iTunes zaštita   
   
Grupa hakera, među kojima je i poznati Jon Lech Jochanssen, čovjek odgovoran za probijanje zaštite za presnimavanje DVD-ova, izradila je program nazvan PyMusique, koji probija zaštitu datoteka kupljenih preko iTunes glazbenog servisa   
      
PyMusique nema veze s kupovinom samih pjesama preko iTunesa, već omogućuje da jednom kupljene pjesme koristite bez restrikcija koje su inače u njih ugrađene.

Osim Jon Lech Johansena, programeri koji stoje iza PyMusique programa su Travis Watkins i Cody Brocious. Jon Lech Johansen, inače Norvežanin, svojedobno je probio zaštitu za kopiranje DVD-ova i uspješno se izvukao, a cijela grupa na sličnim pravnim temeljima tvrdi i ovaj put da njihov program ni na koji način ne krši zakon. No prilično smo sigurni da Apple neće tako misliti.

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ponedjeljak, 21.03.2005

Ne mogu da kazem da mi je krivo, naprotiv...

meč se nastavlja :/
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Apple released a statement Monday saying the problem had been fixed, and that some iTunes customers would need to upgrade their software.

"The security hole in the iTunes Music Store which was recently exploited has been closed, and as a consequence the iTunes Music Store will now sell music only to customers using iTunes version 4.7," the company said in a statement.

Like all other digital music companies, Apple has been dealing continually with hackers intent on finding ways around the antipiracy protections that are added to songs as they are sold online. The company has upgraded its iTunes software several times to block unauthorized programs' access.

Johansen has been one of the most persistent of those programmers, releasing several tools that have helped others tap into the inner workings of the iTunes software, and even remove the copy protections.

PyMusique itself was the creation of several different programmers, including 17-year-old Pennsylvania high school student Cody Brocious, who last week said he was simply trying to create a way for Linux-based computers to use the iTunes store.

A test of PyMusique on Monday morning showed that it was still able to preview songs in the iTunes music store, but no longer able to purchase music.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the company is considering legal action on the issue.

Only about 15 percent of iTunes users would be affected by the need to upgrade to the latest version of the software, the company said in its statement

I dalje se nastavlja ...

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PyMusique is back

On Tuesday, the programmers behind PyMusique announced that they had found a new way around the copy protection in Apple's iTunes, just one day after Apple announced a fix for the problem. By using the PyMusique utility a customer can purchase songs from the iTunes catalog and store them on their hard drive without any form of copy protection. It also means those audio files can be played an any AAC compatible MP3 player and exported to any number of machines reports PC Mag.

John Lech Johansen on his blog said "The iTunes Music Store recently stopped supporting iTunes versions below 4.7 in an attempt to shut out 3rd party clients. I have reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 crypto which will once again enable 3rd party clients to communicate with the iTMS."