Also via boing boing, news that Playfair, which strips the protection from songs you have downloaded from the iTunes Music Store for your own fair use and which Apple hounded off the web, is now hymn — Hear Your Music aNywhere — and available for download under a GNU license and with support of the Free Software Foundation India. There are versions for Mac OS (a drag-and-drop GUI), Windows (a compiled binary for the command line) and source code for you to compile for other platforms. Not only did Apple succeed in making Playfair disappear but, as I described below, the recent ver.4.5 upgrade to iTunes seems to defeat its unprotection scheme (as implemented in m4p2mp4.exe under Windows/DOS). I will be interested to learn if hymn does any better…