A hacker by the name of DVD Jon has fixed iTunes and broken the law. He’s releasing a program that allows people to copy files bought on iTunes to other devices. So if you bought a song from Apple and want to listen to it on your mobile phone, you now can.
But this will make you a criminal.
You see, Apple makes money by making a broken product; one that’s partially designed to limit what you can do with it. Anyone who fixes their product breaks the law. They’re a hacker or a pirate or a ninja-monster or something. But the company who is purposely ripping its customers off? They’re just a good corporate citizen, busily protecting artists from the spread of their of art.
I may even be breaking the law by encouraging people to use this improved product or by providing a link to it. I don’t know. I’m pretty sure that’s how the law actually works but it just buggers my imagination. It’s hard to believe that the free flow of information could be criminalized. Or that typing words could be a crime.
Surely, that’s a situation much more befitting an evil totalitarian society than a free and democratic one. Surely, the divide between quaility and profit hasn’t grown that wide.
Surely.
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