iTunes without passwords

The same guy who cracked the DVD encryption years ago (which turned out to be a simple process but it really angered DVD companies) has now done somethins similar with iTunes.

DVD Jon (as the media is calling him) has released a version of iTunes that runs on Linux and removes the password protection from the downloaded songs. It turns out that the client (iTunes) is what encrypts the songs after they are downloaded so it was not such a task to create a version of iTunes that simply doesn’t add the encryption. It’s written in Python and runs on - you guessed it - Linux. They’ve got a Windows client but have announced that after this last version (v 0.4) they will not release anything for the Windows platform.

So if you’re interested in paying the same amount but getting the rights to your music that you deserve - check out PyMusique.
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