PyMusique

PyMusique is an iTunes Music Store client written in Python by Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious, and Jon Lech Johansen ostensibly for the purpose of allowing downloads from the iTunes Music Store on Linux. It was first released via Johansen's website in March 2005. Although the iTunes Music Store's method of applying FairPlay DRM to the songs was widely known, PyMusique was the first program to exploit a loophole in the system, allowing users to download songs without the DRM protection.

PyMusique also allowed songs to be re-downloaded for free, in case a user accidentally deleted their purchase. Within a number of days, Apple broke the client by forcing all users to upgrade to iTunes 4.7 [1]. In response to Apple's actions, Johansen released PyMusique version 0.4 on March 22, 2005 [2], which allows users once again to use PyMusique with Apple's store. However, with the launch of 0.4, developer Cody Brocious stated on his blog that no future versions of PyMusique would be released with Microsoft Windows support [3].

External Links

• The PyMusique project at fuware.net
• Neowin.net interview with Cody Brocious