MySpace Music Player Hacked 120
Roy van Rijn writes to tell us about a little program called MySpace MP3 Gopher, with which you can download any song from MySpace as an MP3 even if it is marked to disable downloading. MySpace MP3 Gopher is a Windows program requiring no installation, and for those not on a Windows box the author offers an online version that anyone can run. It is hosted on his home computer so it is bound to get slashdotted rather quickly. All you need to grab a MySpace song is its "friendID," which is in every URL as a parameter. Tech-recipes has step-by-step instructions.
Uhm. Slashdotted? (Score:1)
Ok, who on slashdot uses myspace? Ok, now how many use it for music? Alright. Lemme recount.
I sense a lot (more) myspace bashing. Otherwise, it's a cool program.
Re:Uhm. Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)
I bet you a lot of Slashdot does. As soon as you see the first chick with nice hooters who advertizes her myspace page, and you have to be a member to see the good pics.
Not that I actually did that... I just heard about a friend... errr
Re:Uhm. Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uhm. Slashdotted? (Score:4, Funny)
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"Current Status: NOT WORKING - as of 9/16/2006 the Gopher stopped working. I am working to fix it. Try back later."
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If the article was about the fertilization process of the Eastern Canadian Brown Pine Tree, and it had a link to some random dude's web page, it would get slashdotted.
You act like people have something better to do at work. There's no threshold here, the slashdot effect applies to everything.
Sweet, low quality MP3s! (Score:1)
Lol. Good point... (Score:4, Interesting)
The only thing I really don't like about this is a lot of musicians and labels have come to depend on MS (say what you like, I work in a web-services company, I know Coldfusion and MySpaces scales poorly) and they might start pulling content. MS is actually the best resource out there right now for finding new work (since mp3.com really, which is shit now). Thats a simple fact. And artists can be very, very sketchy about 'lossing control' of their content. Another fact I have to contend with regularly (I run an internet radio channel/show on the previously mentioned site).
Lets hope they plug the hole quickly before knees start to jerk.
More interesting is the pending MySpace [mtv.com] downloads. Assuming they don't build it out themselves (which the article seems to suggest isn't the case) this could be great for a lot of independant/international artists and even better for the listeners. Because MS encoded files are great for a quick taste but garbage to really listen to.
Anyway, as usual, we'll see how the chips fall. The net is pretty orgainic.
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Absolutely... (Score:3, Interesting)
The catch with those great digital download sites for the small artists is you need a LABEL. They don't deal with artists directly. Which was great news for me, I was preparing to launch a 'virtual' label for artists who needed help with that part. But thats on hold now with MySpace's plan. I'll see how it works out.
Anyway, I agr
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Think contectual... (Score:2)
Honestly, I thought about it and decided to abbreviate despite the similarities, simply because the post was about one company. Seems you managed and we've had a conversation despite this decision which leads me to the only logical conclusion: I was right (its always the same conclusion, I might have to re-evaluate my sample data, but I won't be telling my customers).
Ciao!
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Oh? (Score:2)
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?fuseaction
Still looks CF to me, but then I don't work there. Does coward?
I blame Universal Music (Score:4, Interesting)
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It's so obvious (Score:2, Interesting)
I dislike Myspace as much as the next guy, but Universal is just playing dirty [mercurynews.com]. I mean, just days after they threaten to file suit against Youtube and Myspace, a piracy tool written to exploit myspace just happens to appear on the internet.
give me a break. It's pretty clear that a) MySpace and Universal have been in contract negotiations, b) those negotiations have broken down over fee structure, and c) Universal is doing
Re:It's so obvious (Score:4, Insightful)
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If murdoch wi
Re:I blame Universal Music (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I blame Universal Music (Score:4, Interesting)
Look at it this way: it's a lot easier to download an album from ThePirateBay, than it is to comb through dozens of Myspace pages trying to cobble together all the songs from the album using this tool.
It's all about the laziest route to information... and this tool "ain't it". That fact, and its timeliness in relation to the Universal Music announcement makes it suspicious.
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Well, then that's even stupider, when you compare it to thepiratebay. And more proof that Universal's whole "Myspace = piracy" thing is a red herring.
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Who would want to download the songs people put on their main pages? The quality is horrible for digital music. I'd rather pay iTunes the $0.99 for the song if I wanted it, not get some crap quality version from MySpace.
I think your tinfoil hat is worn out. You might need to go to your local Wal-Mart and get another roll.
Re:I blame Universal Music (Score:4, Interesting)
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Ah, right... (Score:2)
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A different way (Score:2)
Unfortunately MySpace music is only 96kpbs MP3s (AFAIK), so it's gonna be low quality, but lots of artists have MySpace exclusives or live songs only available there, which leaves it as the only choice.
or if you run KDE ... (Score:2)
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In other news (Score:5, Funny)
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The interrogators forced our 'involuntary Muslim visitors' to listen to Brittney Spears, then tacked on a few dozen years to their sentences because the rips were pirated.
Wouldn't this be considered cruel & unusual punishment, just like forcing my kids to watch Barney should be considered child abuse??
Why? (Score:1)
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A win-win situation for *AA.
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Off topic, but are there any rather exceptional indie bands on Myspace that you know of, and could you provide a link?
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It doesn't work.... (Score:2, Informative)
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I can see it coming... (Score:2, Interesting)
2. Create a trojan with adware.
3. Post a link to a "mirror" with the trojan. Bundling the original program is optional.
4. Sit back and earn 0.25 per install.
Caveat emptor.
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2. ???
3. Profit
It appears this guy is one of the first to figure out ??? ==
Must already be patched by myspace (Score:5, Informative)
So.. move along, nothing to see here.
LR
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Ok, explain... (Score:2)
Doesn't work (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe MySpace devs fixed the hole
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Makes no sense (Score:1)
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Or go to a live show (if any) and smuggle in a Minidisc recorder. I hear that's quite a popular option, too.
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Have you tried contacting the band, asking them to burn and sell you a CD?
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Isn't it against myspace.com TOS to continue to use the site with an invalid e-mail address?
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Plus I seriously doubt Ms would actually do anything about it.
Mac-based Alternative (Score:1)
Slashdot is always late (Score:5, Informative)
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Oh crap, I guess I was late too.
bunk (Score:1)
What's the point? (Score:2)
That leave indie artists
So what? (Score:1)
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Dude, you're screwed. (Score:2)
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Hey, I can do this too! (Score:2)
Set recording to stereo mix.
Turn off or silence all other programs that might make a sound.
Hit record.
Open the myspace page with the music I want to "download".
Wait until it's finished.
Hit stop recording on Audacity.
Cut out the beginning and ending dead air.
Save file.
Duh.
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ill-conceived hack (Score:2)
Seth
See i told you (Score:1)
Gopher's not dead? (Score:1)
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http://www.swfigures.com/swf/Enlarged/non-sw-vint
*WARNING* (Score:1)
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Re:The lack of Web 2.0 security. (Score:5, Insightful)
I disagree. They are letting people download this music, but they are supposed to prevent them from saving the file.
This is just an attempt at DRM, which really has little to do with our traditional notion of "computer security".
"Security" usually means preventing unauthorized access of your computers... not preventing unauthorized access to data after you give it to someone.
In this case... (Score:2)
What were we talking about?
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What does this have to do with Web 2.0? The MySpace music player is a flash application. Web 2.0 is just a term to describe the new generation of social web apps which team up various mature technologies in innovative new ways to deliever a richer user experiences compared to the previous generation of web applications.
Web 2.0 sites simply focus more on user and community interaction, collaboration, and content-contribution. They also marry pre-existing technologies (javascript, xml, serverside-scripting)
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That's not the point. Sure, I understand that it's possible to record my music with software like total recorder et al, but I would imagine the majority would not take the time to do so. With this new tool, it gives the majority a quick and painless way to get copies of my music.
Saying "You put it online, so you shouldn't mind people ripping it" is like telling a car dealership that they should accept that their cars
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um...no. it's like a car "dealership" saying "i know we put these cars in the lot, with the keys in them, for people to use for free, but stealing them is wrong." the songs aren't there to be looked at and not used. as far as i know, there's no limit to how many times you can listen to a song on someone
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but really. if you don't want your music downloadable, don't put it online. there's nothing you can do that will prevent someone downloading it. in fact, to listen to it you first have to download it.
if you want people to be able to preview your music, supply them with 30 clips of it, not whole songs. because it WILL be downloaded
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I don't agree. Sure, there will be ways round any protection, but then again all this stuff is out there on p2p anyway for anyone who can be bothered. For everyone else though... putting up a download is saying "you don't have to buy this, just have it", they're not likely to go buy stuff if you do that are they?
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i was specifically addressing the OP's gripe that "if he wanted them downloaded he'd have checked the download this song" thing. he might or might not increase/decrease his revenue stream by putting a full song up for download. i have yet to see any serious research done on that. but common sense says if you dont want so
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Exactly!!!
What is the difference between playing a song from your favorite MP3-player or playing it from the webpage? - Or sharing it or the URL to the webpage? - Making a song 'unsavable' is just a stupid way of exercising ultimate control. Doesn't make any difference but 'as creator I want to be in control and decide how and when' or something along those lines.
Make up your mind: Do you want to let other hear your mus
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If I want to make music my living, I have to be able to pay the bills. That's not going to happen if my music is free. Music takes time and money to create, just like any other art. Do you see painters giving all of their best paintings away for free? Perhaps the ones that are already wealthy.
Making music for a living is different than selling out. If I wasn't "doing it for the music", I'd find myself a job
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Except a painter would have to paint each and every painting that he/she gave away, unlike you, who makes it once for some fixed cost and then distribution is free. The painter has O(N) cost, while yours is O(1).*
Now I know many musicians feel entitled to O(N) profits, which is understandable because the industry has been set up to work like that thus far (for better or worse). I respect your ability to make that decision for yourself,