“This time, it's not the doing of an angry record industry or a conflict-averse Apple.” This has been stated by ZDNetUK News.com on the 9th of March 2004. While this is debatable, let's stick to the application that eventually got banned by Apple a month later – myTunes.

myTunes never meant to create such a havoc. It was created to facilitate the sharing of legally free music between the users of the same network. It did what iTunes didn't. That is allowing people to save the shared music on their PC. U.S. college campuses have quickly become the home for this application and that's the same place it found its end.

Upon its source code disappearance, it only took exactly 7 weeks until Apple released the 4.5 of iTunes. This marked myTunes as illegal due to the nature of its function – music sharing. Although its creator, Bill Zeller, was never contacted by Apple or RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the application went missing from the web.

myTunes Redux took its place in 2004 and yet again it hyped everyone until being dismantled from within. This has been the last time, to date, that Bill Zeller tried to re-create myTunes and make it shine once again. The legal implications usually make software like myTunes go dark in time – best example here would be Napster.

myTunes had a short life – approximately 26 weeks. In its half-year existence, Bill Zeller claims it has been downloaded by 3.5 million people from his website. While it definitely bypassed Apple's sharing restrictions in order to serve its purpose, this application didn't break any laws by itself. The community stabbed it from behind with every illegal download of copyrighted material.

The statement that Zeller posted on his forum sheds some light over the situation: "Am I at fault? I've broken no laws, I've committed no crime. If you want to copy books and sell them, is Xerox at fault? If you bash someone over the head with a Powerbook, is Apple responsible?"