After Australian student David Hammerton cracked the new encryption and authentication system used by iTunes [1], One2OhMyGod was forked into a program called 'AppleRecords'.
ourTunes was developed further from AppleRecords, including the conceptual design of programs such as MyTunes, designed by Trinity College (Connecticut) student Bill Zeller, although these programs lacked ourTunes's searchability features.
[2] When iTunes 7 was released, Apple changed the authentication scheme again which caused the older version of ourTunes to fail.
Unlike peer-to-peer programs like Kazaa and Napster, ourTunes cannot search for or download music from users who do not share a subnetwork.
ourTunes offers the ability to both download and stream music off the available shares.