New and Noteworthy: Apple settles one Mac OS X leak lawsuit; PyMusique creator strips iTunes DRM -- again

Apple settles one Mac OS X leak lawsuit Apple has settled its litigation against one individual who allegedly leaked an NDA-protected pre-release copy of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) using the BitTorrent file-sharing network. Reuters reports: "Apple said it had settled the case it brought against Doug Steigerwald, who is a student, in late December. As a member of the Apple Developer Connection, Steigerwald was given early, test versions of the next version of the operating system code-named Tiger. Apple has said that Tiger will be available by June of this year. [...] Apple claimed in its suit that two different versions of Mac OS X were made available on the Internet on or about October 30 and December 8 of 2004." More.

PyMusique creator strips iTunes DRM -- again On Tuesday, only a day after Apple announced a change to the iTunes Music Store that prevented users from using a third-party program called PyMusique to buy songs, one of the program's authors has made changes that restores the software's ability to work. Digit Magazine reports "PyMusique is a software program for Windows and Linux operating systems that enabled users to buy music through the iTunes Music Store without using Apple's iTunes software. It has two features which made it remarkable: It allowed you to re-download songs without having to pay for them again, and it downloaded songs without encrypting them using FairPlay, Apple's Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology - songs bought using PyMusique could be played back by any computer or portable device capable of recognize AAC-formatted files." More.

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