WTF is ourTunes?

Ok, some of you are coming to this site wondering what the hell this is all about. Let me help you. Or instead of me helping you I am going to rip off the wikipedia entry about ourTunes:

iTunes music sharing feature, which allows a maximum of five users every 24 hours to connect and listen to the music of another user who has enabled sharing on a given subnetwork, ourTunes allowed users to download music files to their own computer and provides the functionality to search through the songs from all connected hosts. ourTunes could download music purchased from the iTunes Music Store but the files are still protected and needed to be reactivated. Unlike peer-to-peer programs like Kazaa and Napster, ourTunes cannot search for or download music from users who do not share a subnetwork. ourTunes is technically not a peer-to-peer program because it does not offer its users the opportunity to share files. ourTunes offers the ability to both download and stream music off the available shares.

Basically ourTunes could download anything from any shared iTunes library on a subnet (like a dorm network or a wireless network) without connecting to the internet. iTunes 7 changed the way the software connects and so ourTunes and other branches based on the old authentication system no longer work.

I am working with a programmer or two (only one right now, see Big News below) to get a new version of ourTunes out with the new connection system in place.

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P.S.

More than 21 million iPods were sold in the final quarter of 2006- just about all of them use iTunes 7 to manage that music.