[ilugd] apple iPod a tune
dear all, have you been following the controversy of apple's iPod and iTunes, with its DRM-ed and proprietory file-formats, all working nice and proper with RealNetworks. Apple is understandably feeling quite rotten. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117201,00.asp am sure the opensource community watches this with interest, thanks to the recent controversy between the community and apple, even in india. :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] apple iPod a tune
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 6:28 pm, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, have you been following the controversy of apple's iPod and iTunes, with its DRM-ed and proprietory file-formats, all working nice and proper with RealNetworks. Apple is understandably feeling quite rotten. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117201,00.asp This part was so hilarious!!! [...] Real says its developers did not engage in reverse engineering. What we did was not reverse engineering. ... We looked at publicly available data moving between the user and the IPod, Sean Ryan, RealNetworks' vice president of Music Services, said on the sidelines at Plug.IN. [...] - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.comHome: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 Learnt something new today? Contribute to the ILUGD Knowledge base at http://www.lug-delhi.org! Help others gain from your knowledge! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] apple iPod a tune
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LL == Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL dear all, have you been following the controversy of apple's LL iPod and iTunes, with its DRM-ed and proprietory file-formats, LL all working nice and proper with RealNetworks. Apple is LL understandably feeling quite rotten. LL http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117201,00.asp What's even more interesting is another thing that has been declared legal by the US copyright office: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113190,00.asp Excerpt Software developers can use reverse engineering to circumvent digital protection of copyrighted material, if they do so to achieve interoperability with an independently created computer program. /Excerpt Isn't that precisely what Hymn does? LL am sure the opensource community watches this with interest, LL thanks to the recent controversy between the community and LL apple, even in india. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFBDu52yWjQ78xo0X8RApXLAJ9IY3RqVa4FEW4OAhc1L+fAWxBASgCeKNYJ nJXt5sz25eyYBJl/NDy1ddE= =GveZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] apple iPod a tune
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 18:28, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, [SNIP] Interesting and illuminating. OTH we were taking things lying down. LL why is that all your posts are coming twice?? -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
