PyMusique Strikes Back

Jon Lech Johansen, one of the coders behind PyMusique and the guy who broke the DVD encryption scheme back in the day, has just announced that he has decrypted the iTMS block on non-iTunes 4.7 connections to the iTMS. He just announced this on his blog: ”The iTunes Music Store recently stopped supporting iTunes versions below 4.7 in an attempt to shut out 3rd party clients. I have reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 crypto which will once again enable 3rd party clients to communicate with the iTMS.”

In other words, PyMusique should work again. Now it’s Apple’s move. It’s like watching an extremely slow, but riveting nonetheless, tennis match!

UPDATE: News.com (Tech news first? According to the post times, we beat them!) now has an article up if you want to read more.

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janeiro

>> It's only gonna work for linux people, so whats the point anyway,is there any real danger to ITMS? << PyMusique is written in python, meaning it will run on anything that has a python interpretter: linux, OS X, windows, etc, etc.

March 23 2005 at 10:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Akshat

It's only gonna work for linux people, so whats the point anyway,is there any real danger to ITMS?

March 23 2005 at 2:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Willful Expose'

Haha. I like the tennis match analogy, except for me this is much more exciting than tennis ever was.

March 22 2005 at 11:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James Desler

"You proved you could do it..." Do you really think that's why he's doing it? Guess what, if apple would release a Linux version of iTunes we wouldn't need PyMusique.

March 22 2005 at 10:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PXLated

This could get tiresome real quick. I don't want to have to download iTunes updates every few days. Give it up Jon, it's a losing battle. You proved you could do it, now move on!

March 22 2005 at 8:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Urs Renggli

Ding Dong statt Ping Pong !

March 22 2005 at 7:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply