Hackers revive iTunes music sharing
Posted by malebolgia on 20 August 2004 - 14:27 · 34 comments & 1475 views
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#1 Posted by jmc777 on 20 Aug 2004 - 17:19
- Share the love baby!
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#1.1 Posted by rogerroger on 21 Aug 2004 - 05:39
- Oh yeah! Gimmie some love fellas (in a non-gay manner)!
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#2 Posted by Larney on 20 Aug 2004 - 17:25
- LOL, Apple have been pwn3d
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#3 Posted by Starcom826 on 20 Aug 2004 - 17:41
- Cue in Apple defenders and P2P haters in...3...2...1...
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#4 Posted by astrokat on 20 Aug 2004 - 17:55
- Is there a easy way to manage libraries if you have computers in multiple places? Or have multiple profiles in itunes.
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#5 Posted by threetonesun on 20 Aug 2004 - 18:07
- This news post should just be retitled "iTunes 4.7 Released"
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#6 Posted by nic on 20 Aug 2004 - 18:16
- I don't see why Apple should be against this product, or why anyone thinks they are being "pwn3d" by it. As long as it isn't going around their DRM and only sharing songs that could have been swapped over a local area network anyway who cares.
And on top of that, why should anyone care about this program? You mean you can't share a folder with media in it and access the media in that share with iTunes? Is this too complicated for an Apple user? Or is this something that you can only do with Windows?
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#6.1 Posted by noyb on 20 Aug 2004 - 18:23
- First off, this hurts Apples relationship with the record companies. Secondly iTunes doesn't need to have any folders set up for sharing to stream music.
In essence the problem that this presents is it turns iTunes into a scaled down version of Kazaa by copying files over rather than just streaming. -
#6.2 Posted by bogd on 20 Aug 2004 - 19:14
- yeah, I have a feeling that Apple doesn't want to seem like they support piracy.
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#6.3 Posted by tRr on 21 Aug 2004 - 03:37
- Apple doesn't support piracy, since using iTunes by itself you can't actually download any of the shared music, and it's a pretty safe bet that the next version of iTunes will break this once again...and then it will be broken... and on... and on...
This is basically only a problem in college, where certain people will ALWAYS share music– if you remove this feature from iTunes they will just travel elsewhere. Apple has created a solution were any regular Joe and Jane who aren't looking to steal music can easily open up iTunes and listen in, maybe preventing them from stealing, and for some reason you want that taken away?
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#7 Posted by Tech001101 on 20 Aug 2004 - 18:24
- I'm sure another spinoff will soon rise using probably something that eliminates the middle man servers and share straight between clients.
or they may add a kazaa plugin.
i'm sure that isn't hard.
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#8 Posted by Jstphish on 20 Aug 2004 - 19:09
- It's only an amount of time before Apple releases another iTunes update to kill this program.
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#9 Posted by robpears on 20 Aug 2004 - 19:17
- Illegal
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#10 Posted by un0™ on 20 Aug 2004 - 19:33
- Good for them. FileSharing will never be stopped. It'll get through one way, or the other.
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#11 Posted by SVT on 20 Aug 2004 - 19:37
- I wish Sun released a jvm for BeOS
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#11.1 Posted by paulhaskew on 23 Aug 2004 - 03:29
- hmm, this seems a bit misplaced... BeOS is a bit old...
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#12 Posted by Raven on 20 Aug 2004 - 21:02
- Apple is always against anything they didn't invent.
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#13 Posted by JnCoKiLLa on 20 Aug 2004 - 21:08
- how do i get it to work with Itunes... Need Help
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#14 Posted by Randall_Lind on 20 Aug 2004 - 23:17
- I don't know how it works either. no exe program.
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#15 Posted by JoGro123 on 21 Aug 2004 - 02:50
- its a JAR, your run it from IE or Fox with Java installed. It just opens up and uses rendezvous to scan/connect to local iTunes boxes. Then instead of streaming local music, it downloads it.
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#16 Posted by zippy7182 on 21 Aug 2004 - 04:44
- They had programs that did this for awhile now. My favorite one is called Get It Together.
More information about DAAP and programs that currently support it can be found here.
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#17 Posted by dazedandconfused73 on 21 Aug 2004 - 18:50
- Can someone please tell me how to set this thing up im lost do i have to download itunes or how do i do it.
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#17.1 Posted by zippy7182 on 21 Aug 2004 - 19:03
- You need to have the Java Virtual Machine installed. If you have it installed you can run it by double clicking the .jar file.
If you have it running you would only see songs that people are sharing through itunes or a daapd server on your local network. Install itunes and enable it to share your music to test it out.
I had a problem with OurTunes, it did not allow me to see my shares. I prefer Get It Together which I linked to in my previous post. It has been around longer and works well with my itunes setup and a daapd server if you have one.
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#17.2 Posted by mdorani on 22 Aug 2004 - 01:22
- ok it opens up and everything, but how do i search, the bit where i type is blocked and theres no hosts or anything
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#17.3 Posted by zippy7182 on 22 Aug 2004 - 03:59
- You could be having the same problem I have where OurTunes cannot resolve my iTunes as a host. I could not get it to work, and instead I use Get It Together which I linked to in my previous post.
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#17.4 Posted by jasondefaoite on 23 Aug 2004 - 10:27
- OurTunes also doesn't resolve my local iTunes as a host, however it works perfectly for other iTunes shares on the LAN, which is basically what you want.
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#18 Posted by tele-fragd on 22 Aug 2004 - 04:41
- Heh I find it quite humorous that hackers are usually better at naming their software than others...
Like an older piece of software called 'MyTunes', the newly released 'OurTunes' allows a person to browse complete iTunes libraries on other computers and download songs, either in MP3 format, or the AAC format preferred by Apple. Songs purchased from the iTunes music store and wrapped in Apple's copy-protection technology cannot be traded.
OurTunes works only among computers that share files on a network, however. That means that students or employees can swap songs on a local network, but cannot use it to browse computers on the Internet, as happens with file-trading programs such as Kazaa. Still, the software is likely to ring an alarm at Apple and among record company executives, who have waged war against file swapping since Napster's heyday. Their new vehicle for promoting legitimate online music purchases (iTunes) can't be hijacked if they are to suceed.
Note: You must contact Microsoft Technical Support to obtain this hotfix. It cannot be directly downloaded (yet).