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Lu sur Miguel de Icaza's web log :

Yesterday after rumors that new iPods require a cryptographic checksum on the song database we confirmed that Banshee can no longer store songs on the new iPods.

The new firmware will now refuse to play any songs that you legally own unless you use Apple's iTunes (which is only supported for Windows and MacOS)

A temporary solution is to not upgrade the firmware on your current iPods and avoid purchasing any of the new iPods until someone figures out hwo to generate the checksum.

As a consumer I can vote my not buying Apple products. What bothers me is that they are the market leader and pretty much own that space, other people will buy iPods and they will just not be able to use them with Linux.

With this move they are preventing people from using their iPods with Linux which will be added to the list of things that "Linux can not get right". Not because we can not get it right, but because of Apple's anti-competitive practices. What better way to keep your potential competitors down than with a little lock-out strategy, using the strength in one market to help weed out the competitors on another market. In fact, today's experience with Banshee is no different than using iTunes: plug, sync, unplug.

Apple being the darling of the computer industry will face little or no criticism ***spam*** this.

Maybe this need to be brought up with the EU commission as another unfair business practice from Apple.

Although someone will eventually break the new lock from Apple, they can keep changing it, and every time they change it, they will keep stopping consumers from using their iPods with Linux. Maybe it is time for Apple to be subject to some quality-time government sponsored regulation.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-15.html

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et aussi : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/apple-sucks.html

[Mikelenain]

de toutes façons, i-pod, c'est de la m****

voilà, rien d'autre à dire ^^

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absolument

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comme ce que fait Apple en général d'ailleurs

[Jess]

comme ce que fait Apple en général d'ailleurs

chuis pas d'accord !

L'interface est très bien pensée ( sur la plupart de leurs produits). Ce qui est franchement dérangeant c'est cette politique de verrouillage.

Un peu comme dans la vieille blague sur "Et si les systèmes informatiques étaient des compagnies aériennes..."

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Ce qui est franchement dérangeant c'est cette politique de verrouillage.

merci de cette précision : c'est ce que le nain et moi pensions, mais avions la flemme d'écrire (le nain me détrompera au besoin)

[Mikelenain]

Ce qui est franchement dérangeant c'est cette politique de verrouillage.

merci de cette précision : c'est ce que le nain et moi pensions, mais avions la flemme d'écrire (le nain me détrompera au besoin)

parfaitement. et du coup, je boycotte (comme les DRMs ^^ )

[Jess]

Ce qui est franchement dérangeant c'est cette politique de verrouillage.

merci de cette précision : c'est ce que le nain et moi pensions, mais avions la flemme d'écrire (le nain me détrompera au besoin)

bon dieu ! mais c'est de la télépathie aloooooooors?
au plaisir de formuler clairement tes pensées !

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en direct de Miguel de Icaza's web log :

The folks in #gtkpod figured out the hash used for newer iPods using a debugger on Windows. The code [...] will be integrated in the relevant applications soon enough.

Thanks to everyone on #gtkpod that made this possible (wtbw, nopcode, retar_d, oleavr, desrt and everyone that provided DBs and IDs).

Although we -the Linux community- can choose not to buy iPods, many other people will. And it is our goal to make Linux a viable modern computing platform that allows people to use all of their existing devices.

Breaking the hash is not really a long-term solution, as they can keep making the process harder every time. The long-term solution is for iPods to have a standard interface that third parties can communicate with.

This probably should be compounded to the EU's findings on Apple's anti-trust practices to ensure open access to a popular device.