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Re: [News] Apple Goes Litigious Against Open Source and For DRM

On 2008-02-26, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> iTunes legal silences Hymn
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind
>>> | the open-source Hymn Project.
>>> | 
>>> | Hymn develops software that strips Apple's FairPlay digital rights
>>> | management (DRM) technology from user's iTunes purchases, allowing music
>>> | fans to play their music on devices other than those from Apple.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>
>> Yeah, they suck. I've got one ipod left and once it's gone, all my apple
>> related stuff will be gone also. Never another apple purchase for me.
>>
>> I've got a decent shape 30gig, black video ipod... any takers?
>
> So you agree with Spike1 that people should be able to hand around their
> music for free to anyone that wants a copy? It figures.

    Yeah, because no one would certainly ever want to dump their 
ipod to a new PC or play their legally purchased music on the 
device of their choosing...    

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