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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Urs Renggli said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Ding Dong statt Ping Pong !
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PXLated said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
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!
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James Desler said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
"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.
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Willful Expose' said 11:41AM on 6-21-2005
Haha. I like the tennis match analogy, except for me this is much more exciting than tennis ever was.
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Akshat said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
It's only gonna work for linux people, so whats the point anyway,is there any real danger to ITMS?
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janeiro said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
>> 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.
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