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From the Rogue Amoeba website: http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/10/a-tour-of-airfoil-3/ http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/10/a-tour-of-airfoil-3/ "Airfoil
by ankushnarula 16y ago
From the Rogue Amoeba website:
http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/10/a-tour-of-airfoil-3/ http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/10/a-tour-of-airfoil-3/
"Airfoil Speakers works pretty much like an AirPort Express from the point of view of Airfoil. It advertises its services over Bonjour, then uses the same AirTunes 2 protocol that Apple uses. However, despite using the same protocol, iTunes won’t talk to Airfoil Speakers. iTunes uses cryptographic authentication to ensure that it only talks to real AirPort Expresses, and we weren’t able to mimic that. Until Apple removes those checks, Airfoil Speakers will only work with Airfoil 3 and Airfoil for Windows."
- r00fus 16y agoAnd I doubt this will change, as Rogue Amoeba adopting Apple's private key would be a huge DMCA violation. In fact, I don't see how this private key getting "outed" is going to hurt Apple at all in any countries where things like DMCA exist.
- mdaniel 16y agoIIRC, the traditional way around such legal ambiguity is for the project to offer a configuration variable akin to "input your favorite private key here." If the user is in a country which permits use of the AirPlay key, great, if not then the project can continue to operate as before. Either way, the project is indemnified because /they/ didn't provide the key.
- Karunamon 16y agoIIRC, one of the few exemptions to DMCA is interoperability. That, and this circumvention does literally nothing to aid piracy.