[videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Streeter
No iTunes proprietary system that sells music that can be sold on a single player—the iPod. Yes songs can be burned to a CD and re- ripped but that's also a violation of the license. It's a monopolistic practice, and monopolies are bad for business. It's a good move by France I think against

Re: [videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
The other thing about iTunes/iPod is that no one else can sell copy-protected music for the iPod because iPod only supports Apple's DRM (which Apple does not allow anyone else to use). So its a completely closed system. No one else can sell copy-protected files for the iPod. You could sell non-DRM

[videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread hpbatman7
I agree, a closed system no matter who it is from creates problems for us as in the end user, I should not have to break laws to listen to music I have leagaly purchased on whatever device I own. That is just stupid, IMHO Heath - Batman Geek http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In

Re: [videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Joshua Kinberg wrote: The other thing about iTunes/iPod is that no one else can sell copy-protected music for the iPod because iPod only supports Apple's DRM (which Apple does not allow anyone else to use). So its a completely closed system. No one else can sell copy-protected files for the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Where do we fit in? Well, with podcasting we tried our hardest to make sure we used a non-DRM semi-open format (mp3) so with videoblogging, can we do the same? Should we do the same? I think the reason for using MP3 for podcasting had little to do with DRM and more to do with interoperability.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello,On 3/22/06, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[...] Where do we fit in? Well, with podcasting we tried our hardest to makesure we used a non-DRM semi-open format (mp3) so with videoblogging, canwe do the same? Should we do the same?I wrote about this just a while ago. Please refer to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: French Against iTunes Store

2006-03-22 Thread Loiez D.
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