[microsound] Fwd: Re: Jack / Soundflower vs DRM

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Date: 1/13/07 9:35 AM
Received: 1/13/07 11:47 AM -0500
From: (Billy Youdelman)
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jbrave <> wrote -

> > Isn't part of the problem with this discussion that
> > Jack and other simillar(?) stuff is an easy way to circumvent
> > Apple's DRM protection of iTunes store tunes?

> The need for, and uses of Jack and similar programs goes far beyond a
> teenager or college student trying to rip a copy of his favorite
> song.  That can be done much easier without Jack.

> Throwing a roadblock in the patch of technological progress out of
> fear that someone will use the tech for questionable purposes seems a
> little bit silly, or short sighted to me.

Here is some recommended (by me, heh..) reading on this subject -

|           A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
|           ===================================================
|
|                Peter Gutmann, 
|        http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

> The people who are most interested in technology like Jack are pro-
> audio users.

I am one of these...

Billy Youdelman


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