Despotify is a free software client for the proprietary music streaming software Spotify. Its authors remain anonymous, but write on their website that they're a group of Swedish computer science researchers, security professionals and geeks who "believe strongly in the right to tinker with technology". The software can be run on most mainstream operating systems, but should work on all systems compatible with POSIX and ANSI C that also have CoreAudio or PulseAudio installed. Spotify have blocked usage of Despotify for 'Free' and 'Daypass' accounts, but those with a 'Premium' account can use Despotify if they wish. The Despotify team won't attempt to circumvent the block. The code may, however, be forked by others to attempt to do this. News Despotify appers in It pro portal covering the "spotify" user data issue (See: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2237872/spotify-hacked)
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