> And he gave some good ol' anti-Apple DRM FUD, too, considering many > songs (maybe a majority or all now -- I haven't looked), are available > at higher bit rates with no DRM from iTunes.
Michael--You may want to read what I wrote again. Nowhere did I say anything about DRM, mostly because I wasn't sure of the status of Apple's DRMed music. Buy yeah, yet another reason to buy somewhere else. *All* of Amazon's music is DRM-free and encoded at 256 bits. QuickTime, which you have to get to get iTunes, has been patched for exploits, *again.* The Quicktime patches are coming as fast as Flash patches now and it's tiresome to have to update an app this often. Amazon doesn't make its customers (focus on that word for a second) jump through these needless and insecure hoops. I look at this as I would with an obnoxious car dealer that slaps it's name on the back of the car that you just bought from them. No thanks. I'll go to the Amazon lot down the street that doesn't try to get free advertising off of you as you drive down the road. > It may still depend on the > music company since Apple has to work with those companies to deal with > all these rights issues, but the fact is one can get higher quality > non- > DRMed music from iTunes. It's the companies that want the DRM. Apple is > indifferent to it, as state by Jobs in an open letter concerning DRM. > To > insinuate differently is bull. Right, 'ol St. Steve once again leads the way to the path of enlightenment; a standard feature of iBull. Many people were publicly calling for DRM-less music long before Jobs got into the act and Apple was very aggressive in protecting the FairPlay DRM turf that the iTunes Store uses, suing companies that tried to reverse engineer it and modifying the scheme to void the hacks. Jobs and Apple actively defended DRM, so long as it protected their vertical, closed market of iPod and iTunes and it was to their benefit. Once the market had other and better options, Apple suddenly got religion on DRM. DRM was a bad idea from Day One, (which I said as much a while back, to which you vigorously disagreed) but that didn't stop Apple from happily latching onto it as a business model. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
