November 27, 2003
I Believe It Was Bond...
Diamonds are forever? Nothing lasts forever. A blow to Dco and all his cohorts was dealt today by the same man who brought you DeCSS. (Thats the software that cracked the encryption on DVDs) Yep, you heard right, Dco's fabled iTunes program has been cracked. I don't know much about biology but I will give you the short and sweet.
The new program circumvents iTunes' anticopying program, MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding, by legally opening and playing a protected music file in QuickTime, but then, essentially, draining the unprotected music data into a new and parallel file.
Although the audio captured from each song requires more software to play it, there shouldn't be any problem playing your perfect copy of a protected song. Take that, wankers.
Posted by Nostradamus at November 27, 2003 12:02 PM | TrackBackyeah, I knew about this
It wont do anything to the Music Store, but it may cut out the sharing over the network of music libraries that iTunes offers...and it is a great feature too
Posted by: dcohen at November 27, 2003 01:05 PMBut philosophically....emotionally...are you incensed? fuming? Do you feel violated? eh? heh heh
Posted by: Nostradamus at November 27, 2003 02:04 PMit's not like this matters, though. why would anyone need to download an illegal itunes copy of a song when its available on many p2p services without having to "drain the data into a new file"?
Posted by: dfaskmfsda at November 27, 2003 03:07 PMThat was a terrible use of bond as a segue.
Posted by: JRuss at November 28, 2003 11:30 AMOh yeah? Fuck. I hate myself. I cant score. I'm just gonna walk home guys...no, it's ok, I'm just gonna walk home. I like walking home cause you guys hate me. Yeah I know I'm a fat loser, fuck, you're really better than me. Shit man, you're so much better than me. Shit, I'll never be Bond. Fuck man, I'm so depressed. Damn, I really just gotta walk home dude.
Posted by: Nostradamus at November 28, 2003 07:49 PMI want a ride home
Posted by: Lukas Manneun at November 29, 2003 01:08 PM:D but it was a pretty shitty segue
Posted by: fdsgsdg at November 29, 2003 01:32 PMFine. But it's a damn good picture of him.
Posted by: Nostradamus at November 30, 2003 11:01 AMTrevor, its funny how you made fun of JRuss for threatening to walk home and acting sorry for himself since you did that same thing today.
Posted by: Scorpion at December 1, 2003 11:27 PM...? False. I was obviously kidding, or did you not realize it because you were too busy blindly following your master...
Posted by: Nostradamus at December 1, 2003 11:33 PM