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March 21, 2005

So much for PyMusique

Well, that didn't take long. Apple has blocked PyMusique, which allowed you to download music from the iTunes Music Store without the DRM feature. Apparently, you can now only use iTunes version 4.7 to buy stuff from ITMS. Of course, this means that everyone who was running some other version of iTunes, you need to upgrade. Outstanding!

Of course, this is a potentially an arms race: the PyMusique guys can reverse engineer iTunes 4.7 and make PyMusique emulate it, Apple can upgrade, etc., forcing inconvenience all around. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Posted by ekr at March 21, 2005 8:43 PM | Filed under:

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Posted by: Adam Roach at March 21, 2005 11:03 PM