[cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++

[Kevin Korb]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

That isn't what I have read on /.  I have read that iTunes refuses to
sell DRM free music.

- -- 
~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~
 	Kevin Korb			Phone:    (407) 252-6853
 	Systems Administrator		Internet:
 	FutureQuest, Inc.		Kevin at FutureQuest.net  (work)
 	Orlando, Florida		kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
 	Web page:			http://www.sanitarium.net/
 	PGP public key available on web site.
~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Gil Young wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:58:11 -0400
> From: Gil Young <gjyoung at cfl.rr.com>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++
> 
> Yet, 95% of my music in iTunes is DRM free.
>
> And FWIW....
>
> DRM = a contract.  Why care if anyone else enters into the contract?  People 
> sign up for high interest debt every day, far more evil IMHO.
>
> I'm not 100%, but i'd bet that Jobs gets pressure to not sell DRM-free unless 
> the big labels do so, and he can't make it publicly known that pressure is 
> there.
>
> DRM is the last line of defense the big labels have to their respective 
> industries.
>
> Kevin Korb wrote:
>>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>  Hash: SHA1
>>
>>  Had 2 dedicated servers blow up.  The guy that runs the late
>>  night/morning shift (because he lives in Europe) couldn't fix one
>>  because it appeared to be hanging as soon as the kernel loaded.  Turned
>>  out that the serial port was set to ttyS1 instead of 0 in the BIOS and
>>  only grub dealt with that automagically.  On top of that the system was
>>  going through a manual fsck which is why it never came up on its own.
>>
>>  Jobs sais he doesn't like DRM yet every time an artists asks to have
>>  iTunes sell their stuff DRM free they refuse.  He claims they only use
>>  DRM because they are forced to by the RIAA but when they sell music that
>>  has nothing to do with the RIAA and neither the artist or the consumer
>>  wants DRM Apple ends up being the one pushing the DRM.
>>
>>  - -- 
>> ~ *-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ 
>>
>>      Kevin Korb            Phone:    (407) 252-6853
>>      Systems Administrator        Internet:
>>      FutureQuest, Inc.        Kevin at FutureQuest.net  (work)
>>      Orlando, Florida        kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
>>      Web page:            http://www.sanitarium.net/
>>      PGP public key available on web site.
>> ~ *-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ 
>> 
>>
>>  On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:
>> 
>> >  Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:36:52 -0400
>> >  From: Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>
>> >  To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
>> >  Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++
>> > 
>> >  Kevin Korb wrote:
>> > 
>> > >  lol, Apple can do lots of wrong.  They are the king of DRM.
>> > 
>> >  Well Jobs sez he doesn't want to be.. OMT what are you doing up @ 6am??
>> >  What broke?
>> > 
>> >  -- 
>> >  Kevin P. Inscoe                       Amateur Radio Call Sign: KE3VIN
>> >  Deltona, FL 32738                                28.9497N by 81.1952W
>> >  kevin [at] inscoe [dot] org                    http://kevininscoe.com
>> >  GPG 0x61288D53
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>>> _______________________________________________
>> >  cfgeeks mailing list
>> >  cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org
>> >  http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgeeks
>> >  ------------ Output from gpg ------------
>> >  gpg: Signature made Wed Mar 21 06:36:52 2007 EDT using DSA key ID 
>> >  61288D53
>> >  gpg: Good signature from "Kevin P. Inscoe (Kevin P. Inscoe - KE3VIN - 
>> >  http://inscoe.org/kevin - April 08, 2003; no password) 
>> >  <kevin at inscoe.org>"
>> > 
>> >
>>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>  Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux)
>>
>>  iD8DBQFGAVgBVKC1jlbQAQcRAviQAJ4kwjI820+uw40SCHdWcGcLtKMC9QCgoU/1
>>  4pTV+NPy67udY8ptFbu74zo=
>>  =x7W/
>>  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  cfgeeks mailing list
>>  cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org
>>  http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgeeks
>> 
>> 
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> cfgeeks mailing list
> cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org
> http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgeeks
>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGAWUQVKC1jlbQAQcRAvqZAJ92Amdwd7g72F4WYYaBFL64zlhMNACcCZ+f
D1GFmpavnNV/Ody82rJhW2o=
=wYQ9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----