Buying DRM-Free Songs From the ITMS

mirko writes "Jon Johansen ("DVD Jon") has published a small program which allows the acquisition of DRM-free file from Apple's iTunes Music Store. He explains that his program works by bypassing iTunes which adds the DRM itself at the end of the transfer. His program, pymusique, is Windows-only compliant but it'd be easy to port it to other platforms."

DVDjon is my hero

[Junior J. Junior III]

This guy never stops, does he? Long may you run, DVDjon. I salute you.

I have an idea...

[MadBiologist]

Enough with the iTunes... can't this guy hack Napster or Windows Media encryption?

Wahoo!

[sandstorming]

Now I can use my Backsteet Boys and Hanson tracks as I please!

Bwaling's Law

[AtariAmarok]

Bwaling's Law: Any time there is an article about DRM or downloading music, as soon as someone mentions the word "free", someone will whine about everyone stealing music for free. Even if the word "free" is in an unrelated context (as in: "The songs are free from DRM restrictions" or "I downloaded the Free Willy soundtrack".

Asterix... didn't you read?

[AtariAmarok]

"Could someone translate what DVDjon has to do with Asterix?!?"

Did you read the "Asterix in Civil Court" graphic novel? It's the one where the bard Cacaphonix is replaced with a guy named "DRMfix" who carries around a boombox playing "stolen" Kazaa and iTMS music files.

Re:Napster is far better, and free

[stemcell]

We *were* members of the free napster trial. It ended a couple of years ago when they got they shiiiiiiiiiit sued out of them.

Stemmo

Damn

[jayhawk88]

Does this guy have a "Your 10th lawsuit defense is free" coupon book with his lawyer or something?

See?

[the bluebrain]

... this is why we need closed-source, encrypted, tamper-proof, proprietary protocols. If any yahoo can look it up or just sniff the network, this is what we get: upset applecarts. Onward DRM! Onward TCPA! Onward <sniff> Microsoft!

/this patriotic stuff always chokes me up.

(this message brought to you by the masochistic consumers association of America, aka "tie me down, beat me hard, and steal my wallet")

Re:Contrast with GPL violator story

[Zerikai]

Are you implying that slashdot users are somewhat inconsistent in ther opinions and attitudes?

*faints*

DVDjon?

[game kid]

I've always got crunk to his albu--what? That's Lil Jon? Nevermind...

Re:It's a freedom you wouldn't notice much

[mmkkbb]

Moby material after 1997 is crippled with or without DRM. Yuck.

Re:Wouldn't it be ironic

[Loconut1389]

youre still breaking the law doing that...
in a handful of states (or more?) it's illegal to have anything hanging from the rearview mirror (or at least anything sizeable enough to distract the driver or block vision).

just can't win eh?

Re:Don't you guys realize...

[mikeplokta]

Cool! You mean that I just have to enter my iTunes username and password on my Sony Clie (runing Palm OS), my iRiver MP3 player, my Linux box, and the computer I'm going to own in 20 years' time running an OS that hasn't even been conceived yet, and it will play my DRMed iTunes music? Why did no one tell me this before?

Re:DVDjon is my hero

[ryanvm]

With a name like DVDjon, it's not like he had much career choice.

It's the same as Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. You would have thought that he would have seen that one coming [64.233.167.104].

Me too! + Oblig. Simpsons Ref.

[Marran Gray]

Clerk: iTMS allows obtaining music legally, at an almost reasonable price.
Homer: ...That's good!

Clerk: The music comes with DRM.
Homer: ...That's bad!

Clerk: You can still listen to it on five computers and burn CDs.
Homer: ...That's good!

Clerk: The DRM enforces software lock-in to iTunes.
Homer: ...That's bad!

Clerk: There is software that can remove the DRM.
Homer: ...That's good!

Clerk: The software provokes the RIAA and undermines authority.
Homer: ...wha?
Clerk: That's bad!

Re:Don't you guys realize...

[Golias]

I cant give away my music to my friends.
I can give away or sell my used CD's

I cant lend DRM'd music to someone.
I can lend a CD.

If the future of music is DRM, then these
activities will no longer be legal.


Step 1: Burn the songs from iTMS to a CD.

Step 2: Lend and/or give that CD to your friend.

Step 3: There's no step 3.

In other words, nothing you just said about DRM'd songs from iTMS is true, and you are full of shit. Everybody who moderated you up is doing so in ignorance.