“After Apple threatened my web hosting company and my site was shut down for more than 1 hour, I had to withdraw the iPodDownload plugin for iTunes,” Sylvain Demongeot writes on his here.
Yesterday, MacDailyNews reported on Demongeot’s iPodDownload plugin for iTunes that allowed users to download tracks from iPods to the iTunes library.
Demongeot, on his website, states that he removed the free software plugin to restore access to his website, which was shutdown by the ISP for more than an hour. Demongeot says that Apple never contacted him and that he is still waiting for an explanation of the violation.
MacDailyNews Take: That was quick.
I thought he did a pretty good job since music with Apple’s DRM was excluded. I can’t wait to see what their official take is on it.
“I can’t wait to see what their official take is on it.”
The problem is that the Apple iPod could be used for musical theft. Of course, illegal transfers could not be done with just a CD. But the use of the iPod puts Apple in an awkward position.
Strange. I guess they just objected to the fact that it was in iTunes. I use podworks for the same thing and it is great. Can be run from inside of your ipod too so you can take it with you if you want.
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viruses?? pcs?
Darn. Did anyone get a copy?? I was planning on giving it a whirl. I hate having to use external software to retrieve a song off my iPod.
Typical Apple and Co.
Biting the hands that feed them
There’s always a dark side to a company and this is the side of Apple I don’t care for.
Jeff,
I don’t think it’s really the dark side of Apple. Apple has to protect itself. If it allows plugins like this within iTunes, the music companies may attempt to pull their songs from iTMS because Apple is not doing enough to prevent piracy. It’s a CYA thing for them.
Whether you agree with copyright laws and the current methods of electronically (trying) to protect them or not, the law stands as it is. Apple and his ISP are obviously trying to protect those laws.
If Sylvain Demongeot wants to make his own music player and jukebox software and work out his own terms of protection with the music industry, he is more than free to do so. But, it is illegal to circumvent the protections Apple has put in place, even if 90% of them are still intact (doesn’t move DRM protected music).
When you alter the intended purpose of a product, you change the product itself. You can buy and own1000 firecrackers legally, but you cannot empty them into a single container and add a fuse, then it becomes a bomb. Even if you are in the middle of the desert and “It ain’t gonna hurt no one”, you still made a bomb. The original function of the device(s) have been altered.
I dont understand why you would want to download your music to anywhere, unless you were putting it on a friends computer (which would be file sharing). When it comes to music you are giving that music to someone who isn’t paying for it. Even if it is not the music you purchased, sharing my 24 Gigs of music with someone would be robbing a lot of people. Bottom line just buy music. I have never wanted to download my iPod. I like my music on my computer, on my cds, and on my iPod. I do not have any stolen files on my PC or Mac I share my music via Airport Express with 3 Macs in my home. Just by music and enjoy it. A lot of artist have worked hard to bring you entertainment and everyone wants to steal from them. If someone stole from you then you probably wouldn’t be happy about it.
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If the music on your iPod doesn’t have DRM, why is Apple suddenly the judge on the legality of the contents of your iPod? What if you had original recordings that you wanted to share with somebody else? Switch it around – if your computer has non-DRM content, would be pissed if Apple decided you couldn’t put that content on your iPod?
Just because something could be used in a manner not considered in a way a manufacturer wishes does not mean they have the right to shut you down.
i agree with zupchuck ..
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on the other hand … please people .. copying music is not THEFT it is copyright infringement.
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THEFT is allways a criminal act
copyright infringment is not [not yet]
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Drop me a line and I’ll mail it to you.
I’m not afraid…
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thank goodness that acquisitionx.com provides such great software which enables us to get such software online even after it is pulled from all websites
It was pulled because Apple doesn’t allow developers to code any 3rd party plugins for itunes. It’s in one of their agreements somewhere