Apple issues C&D takedown order to Hymn project software

"You should still be able to use burn-and-rip solutions like MyTunes and DRM Dumpster for now."

At least until they get their C&D letter from the legals at Apple.

Hey Apple, send me a C&D letter, too. I'm sure there is something that I'm doing with music that the music companies that control your decisions based on the contracts you have with them don't like. You can send that to shutmedown (at) applelegal.com

Don't turn into a RIAA Jr. Re-neg your contracts and compete with amazon, who obviously did sign contracts to offer DRM-free music.

Don't let Mr. Jobs public DRM rant go to waste.

All we want is to use our own purchased music anyway we want (just as if we bought the CD). DRM is nonsense.

Hey, I want that. It's always a pain to have to put the song in iMovie with an image, save the movie as aiff, and then import it back into iTunes... all just so I can use the song in a FCP project for a school presentation.

I wish I would have known about this yesterday. If I buy the CD, I can do whatever I want with my music (a lot of times, cheaper than I can buy the album on iTunes). Lame!

So, who wants to hook me up?

tylerjp, I completely disagree. Has DRM stopped or slowed music sharing even the tiniest bit? No. People who want to pirate music can still do it, probably easier than can someone who wants to download music legally.

So who does DRM affect? The paying customers; the people who pay more for a stripped-down, compressed piece of music than do people who buy a CD and get their music at a much higher quality.

You are right about one thing: the record companies are scared of digital music after the whole Napster thing. They think that because the music is already digitally encoded it will be easier to share than a CD. They obviously have never used iTunes or any other piece of music software, because ripping a CD is about as easy as it gets.

DRM is protecting nobody from nothing. It hurts the customers and, if anything, PROMOTES PIRACY!

"Good job Apple...free the music" you say. I agree.

And it'd probably help if I included an email address. mosspile (at) gmail.com.

Requiem 1.1 will be released - by hook or by crook - as soon as we've got it finished.

In the meantime, you can email me for a copy of ffh.

This may be unpopular, however, Apple needs to show the recording companies that they actively prevent tools which help SHARE music without DRM. How else will they ever get the trust from these companies to allow for un-DRMed music sales? Recording companies are worried that iTunes users will not go pirating (sharing) music like back in the Napster days.

Good job Apple...free the music (making it free will never happen...nor should it.)

Wipe the tears out of your eyes, and look at the bigger picture.

Uh, anyone happen to have a rapidshare or torrent link for Requiem 1.0? I really miss the days of JHymn, and I have a fair amount of music I purchased that needs stripping... Thanks!

does this mean apple is NOT going to announce drm-free music next week?

The wayback machine is not going to help here because Requiem was only posted in the past month, and it was on the forums...

Also, I agree about the pirate logo, that's really not helping!