iTunes legal silences Hymn
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| Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the
| open-source Hymn Project.
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| Hymn develops software that strips Apple's FairPlay digital rights management
| (DRM) technology from user's iTunes purchases, allowing music fans to play
| their music on devices other than those from Apple.
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=20538&pagtype=allchandate
Shame on Apple.
Related:
Torvalds' Linux is ready to go green
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| Torvalds also revealed he is glad to see the apparent demise of music
| protected by digital rights management (DRM). In an interview last year,
| Torvalds said he believed DRM was a "lot of hot air": a comment that he says
| has now been proved right.
|
| "I think I have been vindicated somewhat. DRM is so anti-consumer that I
| don't see it really ever taking off," said Torvalds.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds-Linux-is-ready-to-go-green/0,130061733,339285555,00.htm?feed=rss
http://tinyurl.com/3xz54d
A Linux User's Perspective on the ITunes Store (and DRM in General)
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| What if tomorrow you went to Best Buy or Walmart or Sam Goody and purchased a
| CD? What if, before you left the store, the salesman told you that although
| the CD was in all other respects a standard CD, that you could only play it
| if you owned a Pioneer or Sony stereo? Would that make any sense? Would it
| make you a bit hesitant about buying music from that store again?
|
| Well, if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes Store,
|
| [...]
|
| With content from the iTunes Store, however, users may find themselves a bit
| stuck if they ever want to make the switch to a more open computing platform,
| such as Linux. Because none of the DRM-restricted content from the iTunes
| Store will play on Linux. And it's all because that's how Apple wants it, to
| be honest, and not because of any technical limitation.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/324936/a_linux_users_perspective_on_the_itunes.html
Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights
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| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html
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