Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:23:57 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iTunes - once again. Message-ID: <45CA97CD.8030500@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <E826C493-950E-4E43-881F-44930DC143C0@comcast.net> References: <45C64667.6020407@makeworld.com> <2100.67.184.122.32.1170656374.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <8cb6106e0702042304o3d486a53u1f07b5007d0dfa70@mail.gmail.com> <45c6e975.Rrw0VxInM8qmFlsC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <E826C493-950E-4E43-881F-44930DC143C0@comcast.net>
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Tom Marchand wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:23 AM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >>>> Call me silly, but it seems to me you ought to be lobbying Apple >>>> for Linux support. >>>> >>>> Get a decent Apple-made Linux player, and FreeBSD support via >>>> the linux emulator would *probably* work, no? >>> >>> I agree, getting Apple to support iTunes on Linux is key. I don't >>> know if there have been other online petitions ... >> >> Good luck. My guess is that open-source systems like Linux or *BSD >> are considered too easily hackable, and therefore prohibited in >> Apple's agreements with the recording industry. (Even if the iTunes >> app itself were distributed as binary-only, having both the input >> and output drivers open-source might be perceived as making it too >> easy to attack the encryption.) > > > Hasn't Apple's DRM already been cracked? At one point in time the DRM in use for encrypting MP4 files was cracked. However, Apple and/or other vendors came up with a different format / scheme for encrypting and/or storing data in iTunes v6+. Read my previous post which mentions hymn. -Garrett
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