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more on The French Are Struggling Alright!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:29:56 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish () rogers com> Date: March 14, 2006 2:43:30 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] The French Are Struggling Alright! This is all seems kind of pointless and silly. http://www.versiontracker.com (or any other shareware index) already provides plenty of apps, for Windows and Mac, that un-DRM and convert the iTunes Music Store "protected" .m4a AAC audio files to regular .m4a's or .mp3's. And yes, they do work; I've done this successfully myself, and felt compelled to after I was unable to recover music I'd bought once from the Apple online music store, after a disc crash; I can now back up everything to files that don't phone home or do anything weird, and they also play on my Windows laptop when I have reason to use that thing. Has anyone ever been prosecuted for using or making these tools? Do we really need another law, in France or anywhere, regarding this issue, other than a partial repeal of the U.S. DMCA? ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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