Apple’s iTunes allows Macintosh and PC users to play music stored on other PCs on a network. The music is streamed off the other computer. But file-swapping enthusiasts quickly created other programs, such as MyTunes, to capture the songs and allow them to be saved to the computer’s hard drive.
With the latest iteration–version 4.5–Apple appears to have plugged that hole.
An Apple representative on Wednesday confirmed that with the new version of iTunes, the company has “strengthened” the music-sharing feature to make sure that song sharing is limited to personal use and that only another copy of iTunes can access the music stream.
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