Review: Audio Hijack Pro: Easier Hijacking. Is It Legal?
Almost any Mac application that has audio output can have that audio “hijacked” by Audio Hijack Pro (new 2.0 version available now) and recorded direct to your Mac. Is it legal? What about AAC protected files in your iTunes collection? Is there a difference in sound quality?
Why did the developers, Rogue Amoeba, stick “hijack” in the name? Doesn’t that sound illegal to you?
Webster’s has this to say about “hijack”:
1) a : to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway b : to commandeer (a flying airplane) especially.... (excerpted).
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juris said:
is it legal to use Audio Hijack to record the output of music from iTunes, your protected AAC songs? That process, that Hijack, effectively removes the “protection” that Apple places on iTunes songs downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. It may be best to seek it at http://www.isitlegalto.com. The iTunes legalities are difficult to decipher and take extra effort to decode.