DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users

DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users 584

Posted by timothy on Monday January 05, 2004 @09:52PM from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

McGruff writes "The Register has a story regarding DVD-Jon's new hobby, iTunes DRM. According to the story DRMed iTunes AAC files can now be played under Linux via VidioLAN Client thanks to some handywork by Jon. '"When you run the VideoLAN Client under Windows it will write the user key to a file. The user key is system independent and can thus be used by the GNU/Linux version of VLC," he explains.' Personally, this just means I will buy even more iTunes." (We mentioned in November Johansen's efforts to negate the iTunes restrictions on Windows.)

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DVD-Jon is a terrorist! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:00PM (#7887020)

When will the this commie bastard be stopped from stealing money from corporations?????

Re:iTunes on Linux (Score:3, Funny)

by goldfndr ( 97724 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:05PM (#7887062) Homepage Journal

I broke a lot of

digital clocks as a kid because I wanted to know what made them tick! I still got new ones, and broke them as well.

I'm sorry it never dawned on you that the ticking must've been coming from something else.

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:5, Funny)

by Frisky070802 ( 591229 ) * writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:07PM (#7887077) Journal

I think he's a professional defendant, or wants to be.

Wait (Score:5, Funny)

by pHatidic ( 163975 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:08PM (#7887082)

So can we change his name to iTunes-Jon. Or better yet how about iDVD-Jon. Kinda catchy, actually.

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:2, Funny)

by gss ( 86275 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:09PM (#7887092)

Ha, hacking away to break an encryption scheme is not exactly what I would call "having a life".

THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION (Score:3, Funny)

by exhilaration ( 587191 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:15PM (#7887128)

We must immediately invade Norway and effect a REGIME CHANGE in order to prevent any future threat to this great country. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
- Dubya

Slightly Off Topic... (Score:5, Funny)

by Luke the Obscure ( 651951 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:19PM (#7887164) Homepage

I can't wait until all Slashdot comments are nothing but long strings of esoteric acronyms.

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:5, Funny)

by glitch23 ( 557124 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:26PM (#7887211)

Who ever said they earned a living?

Maybe DVD John sould just move into a courthouse n (Score:2, Funny)

by aardwolf204 ( 630780 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:38PM (#7887281)

Maybe DVD John sould just move into a courthouse now

Wasn't me (Score:5, Funny)

by The Tyro ( 247333 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @10:50PM (#7887357)

making it more accessible to the tyro

I had nothing to do with it... I wasn't there... you can't prove anything.

balls (Score:3, Funny)

by MrSpiff ( 515611 ) writes: on Monday January 05, 2004 @11:10PM (#7887493) Homepage

"this guy got balls the size of dorian fruit" - some guy in Freedom Downtime

Re:What's the point? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 06, 2004 @01:16AM (#7888373)

All I hear is "I pirate music. I understand neither encryption nor compression. I read Slashdot." Jesus.

Re:Jon wrote 1000 lines of code with no comments (Score:2, Funny)

by jdmuir ( 207188 ) writes: on Tuesday January 06, 2004 @10:09AM (#7890509)

Don't you remove comments for job security?
He's just thinking about his future!

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DVD-Jon is a terrorist! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:iTunes on Linux (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:5, Funny)

Wait (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:2, Funny)

THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION (Score:3, Funny)

Slightly Off Topic... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What does this guy do for a living? (Score:5, Funny)

Maybe DVD John sould just move into a courthouse n (Score:2, Funny)

Wasn't me (Score:5, Funny)

balls (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Jon wrote 1000 lines of code with no comments (Score:2, Funny)

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