Described by its developers as “ the fair port to the iTunes Music Store,”PyMusiqueis a new software that lets users connect to Apple ’s iTunes Music Store and download songs without Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) limitation . PyMusique does so by bypassing the iTunes coating user interface all together — a clear violation of the iTunes Music Store ’s Terms of Service .
PyMusique have you preview birdcall , read for an iTunes Music Store account , corrupt songs and re - download them after purchasing — a feature that iTunes does not support . But most notably , songs purchased and downloaded using PyMusique are not encrypted with FairPlay , the DRM technology used for all songs download from the iTunes Music Store using iTunes itself .
PyMusique is the piece of work of three developers — Travis Watkins , Cody Brocious , and a name that will be intimate to some who have been watching sweat to circumvent Apple DRM engineering — Jon Lech Johansen , “ DVD Jon ” — the Norse cyber-terrorist who was once at the center of a argument with the movie diligence for bring out DeCSS , a videodisc decryption service program that enables users to re-create the contents of copy - protect DVDs onto their computers .
“ Just like Mail.app is a client for accessing mail servers , iTunes is a client for accessing the iTunes Music Store servers . PyMusique is a new guest that use the same communicating protocol that iTunes use to enter the iTMS , ” Johansen tell MacCentral . “ When an iTMS client buy a song , iTMS will provide the strain in m4a formatting ( unprotected ) . Unlike iTunes , PyMusique will not add DRM to the song before save it to harrow . ”
Available for download as source code , PyMusique is dependent on Python , an interpret programming oral communication sustain on multiple political platform include Mac OS X. In addition to the source code , PyMusique is available for download in Windows and Linux installers — an OS X installer was not available from the situation as MacCentral posted this clause .
Johansen described a Mac OS X translation as “ doable , ” but because the software is subordinate on The GIMP Toolkit ( GTK ) , it would require Mac users to have X11 establish for run .
“ It should n’t take an experient Mac developer very long to reimplement PyMusique in Cocoa though , ” Johansen added . “ We did have a cabinet translation of PyMusique two weeks ago that work all right under MacOS X , but it ’s currently in a wiped out body politic . ”
Johansen first rose to the attention of iTunes users when he released QTFairUse , software system that opened FairPlay - protected song , streamed them in QuickTime , and saved the cognitive content into a new filing cabinet without DRM . Johansen is responsible for for FairKeys , a utility which retrieves FairPlay describe from the iTunes Music Store . Johansen also released JustePort , which permit user to send euphony to their AirPort Express without using iTunes .
Apple was not available for comment as MacCentral posted this clause , but their place on the use of PyMusique and other applications to enter the iTunes Music Store is unequivocal , concord to theTerms of Serviceusers jibe to when they first sign up for the iTunes Music Store .
“ You will not reach the Service by any mean value other than through software that is render by Apple for accessing the Service , ” reads the document .
