On Wednesday MacCentral add readers word aboutiPodDownload , a free iTunes plug - in that enabled users to move files from their iPod back to iTunes . Creator Sylvain Demongeot has since removed the software from circulation follow a postulation from his cyberspace Service Provider ( ISP ) , who apparently intervene at the behest of Apple Computer Inc.
“ After Apple threatened my web hosting company and my site was shut down for more than 1 hour , I had to call in the plugin , ” said Demongeot in a instruction post to the web site .
Moving files from iTunes to an iPod is commonly a one - way street : you’re able to send euphony to your iPod , but Apple provides no mechanism to recuperate those songs from the iPod itself , in the upshot your knockout drive is score out , for model , or if you accidentally edit a call from your iTunes depository library . Demongeot ’s software circumvented this trouble by allow users to dredge and drop songs from their iPod back into iTunes — it then copies the songs back to the computer .
Demongeot posted the content of a content purportedly sent by the hosting fellowship document the job : “ Specifically , we have learned that unauthorised Apple iTunes package codification is being used in a computer program call ‘ iPodDownload 1.0 . ' ”
This is not the first metre a software system developer has unravel afoul of Apple ’s legal section write a plug - in for iTunes . James G. Speth ’s iCommune enable iTunes user to download music from each other ’s playlist . After Speth ’s effort were publicized , Apple cursorily demanded he stop distribution of iCommune , allege Speth desecrate his Apple developer permission by using Apple ’s gadget Plug - In lotion Programming Interface ( API ) to accomplish a intention outside its prescribed bounds .
Speth was only licensed to make a plug - in that would tolerate a third - political party hardware - based MP3 player to be compatible with iTunes , according to Apple , not to change the way iTunes worked . Speth rewrote and later re - released iCommune as a standalone app free of any connection to Apple ’s own codification .
It was undecipherable as MacCentral post this article whether Demongeot faced a similar site to Speth . “ I am still hold off for an account on what iPodDownload is supposed to violate , ” order Demongeot .
