more on iTunes DRM reportedly cracked wide open for GNU/Linux

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:59:51 
To:Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc:victor () victormarks com, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Re: [IP] iTunes DRM reportedly cracked wide open for GNU/Linux


I believe I made no mistake.

One has to distinguish mp3 players (the small flash variety) from mp3
jukeboxes (measured in GB)... of which Apple doesn't support in iTunes
due to competition with the iPod.

If you look at the latest Creative Labs' (for example) Nomad Jukebox
2, 3 and the Zen (any model), none are supported by iTunes or any
other non-iTunes software on the Mac.  If you call Creative they
complain that Apple "stopped talking to them when the iPod came
out"... if you call Apple they'll tell you that Creative needs to
write their own software.  This has meant that many of us recent Mac
converts have had to keep a token PC around...

Joe

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Dave Farber wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:50:44 -0400
> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> To: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] iTunes DRM reportedly cracked wide open for GNU/Linux
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Marks <victor () victormarks com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:32:17
> To:Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Cc:dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [Politech] iTunes DRM reportedly cracked wide open for GNU/Linux
>
> Joe writes the iPod and iTunes suffer from vendor lock-in, that iTunes
> doesn't support other jukebox players. Seems a bit strange to me
> considering that iTunes works with SonicBlue, CreativeLabs, Nike, and
> Nakamichi mp3 players, and has since it's version 2 release.
>
> On Jan 5, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > ---
> >
> > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:14:59 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () sims berkeley edu>
> > Reply-To: joehall () pobox com
> > To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> > Subject: iTunes DRM cracked wide open for GNU/Linux...
>
> > .... the iPod... which we
> > all know has other vendor lock-in problems (ahem... the battery,
> > lack of support in iTunes for other jukeboxes, etc.)). -Joe
>
>
>
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