Apple tries to shut down El Tunes – Viva La El Tunes!
July 30, 2008
What is El Tunes?
El Tunes is a GStreamer plugin that allows Linux users to play all music they have purchased from the iTunes Music Store!
With El Tunes installed (Ubuntu .debs available), your GStreamer-based players (such as Rhythmbox, Totem the Movie Player, Banshee, etc.) can play DRM’ed music purchased from the Apple iTunes store. While you shouldn’t be doing that to begin with, but if you already purchased the music before, you couldn’t exactly get it to play easily under Linux. With this installed, you’re able to play the music just as easily as the non-DRM version.
Apple tried to shut it down
But wait! Apple is refusing to make an iTunes for Linux, and it seems they aren’t content with their music being played on it, either. All El Tunes does is actually allow you to play the music you paid money for – something that Apple has been failing to do. So how does Apple respond? Instead of thanking the creators of this for covering the Linux market for them, they attempt to shut down the website!
Here is the announcement from El Tunes in regards what happened – Apple actually did scare the pants off the El Tunes old web host but they got a new one now. Here is the iTunes Store support – in case you are unfortunate enough to own music you do not have the rights to play on your OS.
And remember – be polite. Like with Fox. But not like with Foxconn.
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Gustavo | July 31, 2008 at 11:13 am
[OT] In Spanish, “la” is “the” in feminine and “el” is “the” in masculine, so it’s wrong to say “Viva La El Tunes”. The correct phrase would be “¡Viva El Tunes!”
2. Pat’s Blog » &hellip | July 31, 2008 at 12:02 pm
[...] Free 3rd party application development and will not brick your device for hacking it. This article talks about El Tunes which is a gstreamer based plug-in that will allow owners of DRM laced music [...]
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RunLevelZero | July 31, 2008 at 12:48 pm
WOW! I only have Mac computers in my house but they all run Linux and OS X. This really makes me mad at Apple. There is nothing that hurts them in any way with this. In fact, they could increase sales this way if Linux users know they can purchase the tunes on Windows and play them on Linux as well. I guess just do as I do and buy the plus tunes only without DRM and strip out the tags that show you bought it. Oh wait, click browser address, type http://amazon.com, purchase music, done.
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vadirkp | July 31, 2008 at 1:04 pm
@Gustavo: Oops, thank you for the correction. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time
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barmaglot | July 31, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Apple is the next Microsoft, but much nastier
6. Apple DRM - you have no r&hellip | August 1, 2008 at 12:26 am
[...] One available here. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Steve Jobs Drops a DRM Bomb on the Music [...]
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Vadi | August 1, 2008 at 12:31 am
Fail #2: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Apple_tried_and_failed_to_screw_over_Linux_users_again
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Jon | August 9, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I guess I fail to see what all the big deal is about. I have tunes I bought from iTunes, and we have three mp3 players in our house–one generic, one Sansa and my Palm Treo. Every one of these is playing tunes we purchased on iTunes with DRM, and every one of them is playing the music as mp3–and it’s all legal. Why do people have to pretend it’s so difficult and Apple is so evil? If these guys _have_ lifted intel. property, they are guilty. That’s not in the spirit of FOSS, that’s for sure. It’s just childish. Get a life and get a CD burner, and back up your music the easy way, and most flexible way, and stop whining about how evil Apple is.
-Jon
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Jon | August 9, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Oh, and I forgot to add, I’m also playing this music on my Mac under Ubuntu and my Dell under both Xubuntu and Puppy…
-Jon
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Vadi | August 9, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Mostly because they’re stupid and instead of *supporting* a company that’s allowing *their* product to work on more platforms, they’re attempting to kill it down.
these guys are doing apple’s work, for free. any smart move would be to say “thanks”, not “gtfo”, eh?
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johnboiles | August 10, 2008 at 3:32 am
This is frustrating. I plan on making my music purchases on amazon or rhapsody from now on.