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The developers of PyMusique - Jon Lech 'DVD Jon' Johansen, Travis Watkins and Cody Brocious - say that they have posted new code online to allow their PyMusique application to reconnect. Yesterday Apple made changes to the store to restrict access to users of its iTunes software, so the hackers reverse engineered iTunes'

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'signature'.

Johansen, Watkins and Brocious claim that it was not their intention to break the DRM on iTunes downloads, but simply to find a way for Linux users to buy music from the store.

'Our intent was not to circumvent copy protection, and if Apple did DRM on the server, we would leave it in place,' they wrote in a blog. 'But applying DRM in an open source project is not worth the time it would take to code it.'

Apple only applies DRM at the point of delivery so that it can be customised to the users who is buying the music, enabling them to play the songs on their specific machine.

At the time of writing the PyMusique website was unavailable.

Apple has declined to comment, but will undoubtedly have been on the phone to their lawyers, or is the absence of the PyMusique site simply a technical problem?