More iTunes Misconceptions

alternateorg on June 2, 2003

From Lockergnome Bytes:



Apple’s decision to close a loophole in it’s Rendezvous feature last week may ultimately doom the service. With the decision to restrict Rendezvous they will more than likely have to close any loophole that hackers may find. The feature had obviously helped sell records. For everyones information apparently hackers have found a way to trick the software to share again, so we will see if Apple makes further changes or do away with it all together

Pay close attention to the line: “The feature had obviously helped sell records.” How the fuck could Rendezvous music streaming – something that takes place over an internal network, machines on the same subnet – sell music, when the sharing-over-IP function was what Apple cut out of iTunes 4.0.1, PLUS the fact that even then, you couldn’t share purchased AAC files, but your regular-old, no-DRM-encoded MP3 files?

If anyone should get it, it’s these guys. I’m just trying to battle the waves of incoherent innacuracy these days.

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2 Replies to “More iTunes Misconceptions”

  1. grant June 2, 2003 at 10:19 pm

    John Gruber has some great analysis of the various frothings going on amongst the iTuners. It’s an entertaining read…

    http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/looney_tunes.html

  2. kev June 4, 2003 at 10:21 am

    saw that. he’s quickly becoming a personal hero of mine.

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