On Thu, 29 May 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > [DRM, Utility vs. Infocontrol] > > Apple is clamping down on piracy by imposing restrictions on the way > that music downloaded from its iTunes service can be shared.
Guilty of provoking discord with intent to incite reading. > But clever iTunes users found a way to extend this local sharing across > the internet using Apple's own Rendezvous software. /* NB. - netmask is not a limit. Perhaps this will be a marketing angle later */ > "Some people are taking advantage of it to stream music over the > internet to people they do not even know," it added. "This was never the > intent." "Now that it has taken off, we need to make RIAA happy." > One angry user wrote on Slashdot: "The digital lifestyle is all about > the fluidity of bits, the fact that all computers on the internet are, > in some sense, in the same place, no matter where they're physically > located." People on Slashdot say just about everything. > Others were less outraged and said that, even with the change, the > iTunes service imposed far fewer conditions on its users than many other > online music services. If you bought a 'product' from a closed system and didn't take self help measures, why are you surprised when that closed system changes? Really, there's no story here. -- Jamie Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm sure being rich sucks. Everything else does." -Cameron Ashby