[cfgeeks] AppleIsEvil++

Thu Mar 22 13:06:52 EDT 2007

I see it as people aren't forced to buy an iPod, or shop iTunes. They 
are not locked in to Apple at all after the purchase if they want to use 
their iPod on Windows or even Linux.  But many do choose to go with the 
overall model Apple has set up.  My main reason to go with them is that 
it all just works, I don't have to poke and jerk it around to get it to 
work, it just works.

And if anyone wants to, they can rip the iTunes purchased music to a CD 
and use it as they wish anyway.  Overall, Apple has the most open model 
there is, and the legal music download industry would be pwn3d by M$ if 
it wasn't for them and the balancing act they have done with user and 
the big labels early on.  I'm not sure what more a corp in business to 
make money could do.

I for one welcome our DRM, yet open standard supporting overlords.

Kevin Korb wrote:
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> That isn't what I have read on /.  I have read that iTunes refuses to
> sell DRM free music.
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> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Gil Young wrote:
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>> 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++
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>> 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:
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>>>  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.
>>>
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>>>  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?
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