I've been using a website called All of MP3 to buy music lately. It's cheap and legal.
I've also had success running their “Allofmp3 Explorer” on Linux through WINE, a Free Windows implementation for GNU/Linux.
Here's my success story: Just try it, and it works out-of-the-box, from installation to use.
I think it'd be swell if Sealand, an “island” nation in International waters, donated bandwidth to Playfair, an Apple ITMS DRM removal tool. They already have a web hosting service called HavenCo.
Here's the email I sent them:
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:40:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Asheesh Laroia
To: sales@havenco.com
Subject: Hosting playfair
Have you considered donating a small amount of bandwidth and CVS access to
the PlayFair project? PlayFair is a program that takes Apple iTunes Music
Store AAC files, which are encrypted using their “FairPlay” Digital
Restrictions Management System, and turns the restricted files into
standard AAC music files.
It would provide a great deal of positive press for Haven Co., as much
furor has been raised over this program being threatened out of existence,
originally in the United States on DMCA grounds and most recently in India
on spurious grounds. The Internet press would frankly be all over this;
it'd be a great marketing move. It's even likely that big U.S. and
international media outlets would cover the move of an original work to a
country like Sealand.
Simply donating the project access to a CVS server and a web server at 128
Kbps would be more than adequate to make this public statement that Free
Software will live on despite local laws; and it would draw so very much
media attention that the bandwidth would be well worth the small price.
Imagine the headlines: “Innovation to use your own store-bought music
banned in U.S.; sole bastion of freedom is European island fortress”.
Feel free to pass this note along to Sealand officials, who I am sure are
also interested in raising awareness of Sealand.
If you're interested, I would be more than happy to pass on the contact
information of the current maintainers of the program.
Yours,
Asheesh Laroia.
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