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A hacker claims to have circumvented the code that prevents music downloaded from Apple's iTunes store being played on non-Apple digital players.
Apple has not commented on claims Jon Lech Johansen has "reverse engineered" Apple's copy-protection system.
Tracks using the system cannot be played on digital music players other than Apple's own iPod.
Mr Johansen's company, DoubleTwist, said that it plans to license the code to digital music player manufacturers.
Actually, since iTunes 7 came out its been a buggy, slow, application. If they could hack it to fix it since Apple doesnt give a (bleep) about it, so let them do it. I mean, what would they do create another online music store? Most people use iTunes, Napster, WMP URGE, & The New Zune Marketplace.
Mr Johansen's company, DoubleTwist obviously emplys hackers for the reason to licence or sell the exploit to companies. Chances are he probably has found an exploit in another piece of software before...
Just goes to show, that most hackers are dumb 13 year olds that have nothing better to do... otherwise instead of exploiting exploits in the obvious way, they would be exploiting them in making money out of a business in finding them