Ask any retailer they'll tell you that there's always going to be a certain amount of shoplifters, but rather than simply give up trying to fight it, retailers put anti-shoplifting measures into place.
"So why bother a paying user if your product is going to be pirated anyway? It's a battle you can't win you might as well accept it as a price of doing buisness."Īccepting it is not the same as not taking measures to reduce it.
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I don't feel like using DRM cracks for this use is at all like P2P, since it's just streaming the song and not transferring it - plus lots of people discover music they might not have otherwise and it helps those artists out (which I feel P2P does as well, but it's a different and much greyer case). Once a co-worker and I even went so far as to authorize each others computer to play our music so that we could listen to the libraries of the other. The annoying thing about iTunes sharing is that if another user is not authorized to play a song it halts and brings up a dialogue, making true random play over another users library impractical.
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I use Hymn myself, no to crack my master files but to break them so I can share them at work. I thougt that was a nice touch to show it really was not meant for piracy. I'm not sure if Hymn still does it, but it used to even keep the ID of the owner in the file to make it impractical to share on P2P networks (as it could easily be traced back to the owner). Since sales on ITMS have kept going up, no-one really cares if you can break the DRM or not. If Apple could or would do anything about Hymn, they would have done it by now. And multiple releases of iTunes since then have done nothing to stop these files from playing - which it cannot do because they are now identical to files that you rip from CD yourself with AAC!! And since that time, Apple has done nothing to shut down. Hymn released a fix in short order - I think back in July? It was a long time ago anyway. When Hymn first came out (under a different name) they released iTunes 4.6 almost right away which would not see files that the old Hymn had converted - by recognizing one aspect of the converted files that was particular to Hymn generated files.