From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:14:02 -0600

Mark Allums wrote:
> I foresee legal hassles, though I like the suggestion that any
> Rockboxed player might somehow be made to appear as an iPod. It's
> borked though, if Apple uses serial numbers with serious-grade
> encryption to validate players. And USA illegal to defeat the
> encryption to circumvent copyright.
>
There's not really much in the way of room for anything serious like
that to identify an iPod. They're presented as UMS devices, so there's
not a special protocol in use. I believe they do make some sort of
custom inquiry, but, and again I'm working from memory here, it's known
what's in it and not encrypted.
Received on 2009-01-20