Apple sent a “Breach and Termination of License” letter to the author of iCommune, James Speth. iCommune is/was basically another P2P application specifically for sharing iTunes libraries over networks. The stopping of this project is a bummer, although Apple’s lawyers had little choice in covering their legal behinds since the RIAA doesn’t seem to do anything anymore except sue everyone connected to anyone using music in interesting ways. I guess I should have downloaded it yesterday when I first heard about it.

Someday I’m going to figure out how to tunnel my local Rendezvous network over to the office and onto friends’ computers. Basically a Virtual Private Network for Rendezvous stuff. Then if someone builds something which bridges VPNs together iCommune is irrelevant…

Speaking of interesting uses of Music, this Tivo announcement might finally be the thing which gets a Tivo into our house. Currently we have an iPod playing through the TV speakers, a networked MP3 playing Tivo would be much easier.