iTunes – without the DRM
p2pnet.net News:- Are you one of the exclusive few willing to pay Freedom of Speech crusher Steve Jobs a dollar or more for a compressed music track?
And if that’s the case, are you seeking a “fair interface to the iTunes Music Store”?
Then look no further. A team comprising Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious and Apple nemesis Jon Lech Johansen who, you’ll recall, came up with DeCSS to decrypt Hollywood’s Content Scrambling System (CSS), have just launched PyMusique.
“The app provides the usual ITMS features – access to song previews and the ability to set up a payment account and to use it to buy songs – but there are two crucial differences,” says The Register’s Tony Smith.
“First, PyMusique allows you to re-download songs you’ve purchased. So if your hard drive goes up the Suwannee and you haven’t backed it up for a while, you can re-acquire your ITMS-sourced song library.
“Second, none of the tracks you download will be encumbered with DRM.”
Smith points out that apart from potentially bypassing Apple’s FairPlay copy protection system – “a no-no according to Europe’s European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD)” – running PyMusique infringes the terms and conditions ITMS user agreement.
Doesn’t seem fair, does it, especially after you’ve already been ripped off for $1?
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See:-
The Register – DVD Jon: buy DRM-less tracks from Apple iTunes, March 18, 2005
