Don’t Worry Steve, We are on the Job(s)

Two weeks ago Steve Jobs published an open letter regarding his thoughts on DRM. I have been giving this much thought.

Steve, we are ahead of you buddy. We know DRM is crap and have for years. While we are on that topic, why don’t you allow iTunes shares to have more than five connections a day? What kind of arbitrary logic is that? Especially since ~80% of the music shared comes from sources other than your iTunes Store? Sources like CDs and *ahem* more CDs (riiight). How come iTunes doesn’t have a better share program? Just allow people to download/share music that doesn’t come from the iTunes Store. People can burn and share CDs at any time, it just takes some effort.. Is that what you count on for protection? I realize that it is the ‘big four’ pushing you into this hobbled music sharing but you just stood up to them, kinda, and said DRM is crap. Put your money where your mouth is, enable full (or at least better) iTunes sharing. Millions will rejoice.

But if you aren’t willing to stick your neck out that far, just shoot me an email with the iTunes share authentication protocol. I won’t tell. Or not.

Because Steve, it is only a matter of time before we have it in hand, you can give it to us or we can figure it out. That is the power of open source. Our project here is picking up speed, more and more people are finding out about OurTunes.
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Steve, can you hear it? The sound of code being written? Hash algorithms being reverse engineered?
BTW Steve, keep up the good work with the hardware (and OS X). I love my Macbook and my iPod. Feel free to try to bribe me with a 24′ iMac with the all works. I will need the biggest hard drive you can cram into that thing, I need space for all of my music.

Sincerely,

Justin Stanley