PyMusique Promises To Turn i-Tunes Into DRM Free Tunes
A group of hackers seem destined for Apple CEO Steve Jobs hit list as they are claiming to have written a program called PyMusique that will strip i-Tunes of it's Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Cody Brocious is a 17 year old high school student from Pennsylvania who helped create PyMusique, and he told ZDNet.com on Friday that the application was created stictly as a means to buy songs from the i-Tunes music store without having to worry about Apple's strict DRM.
"The intent of the project was to be able to purchase files from the iTunes Music Store," said Brocious in the interview. "I believe very firmly that the project is ethical and does nothing but good for the community at large."
Apple's i-Tunes is the most successful legitimate online music store, and part of it's success is based on the DRM involved with i-Tunes songs. The security involved with their DRM has made it very easy for Apple to convince artists that they can safely sell their music online.
With PyMusique a user can purchase a song from i-tunes DRM-free, thus allowing them to burn or port their purchase to as many media or devices as they wish, a blatant violation of i-Tunes terms of service.
Thus far Apple has yet to publicly comment on PyMusique because until recently the software only worked on Linux based systems, however Brocious claimed in the interview that they have also created a Windows version of the program which is almost certain to raise Steve Jobs eyebrows.
As a side-note one of the programmers involved with PyMusique is Norwegian Jon Johanson, who helped crack the CSS encryption found on DVD's in 1999.
Cody Brocious is a 17 year old high school student from Pennsylvania who helped create PyMusique, and he told ZDNet.com on Friday that the application was created stictly as a means to buy songs from the i-Tunes music store without having to worry about Apple's strict DRM.
"The intent of the project was to be able to purchase files from the iTunes Music Store," said Brocious in the interview. "I believe very firmly that the project is ethical and does nothing but good for the community at large."
Apple's i-Tunes is the most successful legitimate online music store, and part of it's success is based on the DRM involved with i-Tunes songs. The security involved with their DRM has made it very easy for Apple to convince artists that they can safely sell their music online.
With PyMusique a user can purchase a song from i-tunes DRM-free, thus allowing them to burn or port their purchase to as many media or devices as they wish, a blatant violation of i-Tunes terms of service.
Thus far Apple has yet to publicly comment on PyMusique because until recently the software only worked on Linux based systems, however Brocious claimed in the interview that they have also created a Windows version of the program which is almost certain to raise Steve Jobs eyebrows.
As a side-note one of the programmers involved with PyMusique is Norwegian Jon Johanson, who helped crack the CSS encryption found on DVD's in 1999.
posted by James Mason at 9:30 PM
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Update: On Wednesday Apple announced that they had patched the hole that allowed PyMusique to by-pass it's DRM, of course that was followed by a post on SlashDot Wednesday night that PyMusique had already found a "work-around" for the patch which allows the program to still function.
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