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Disney Blames Apple For Music Piracy

Posted by pudge on from the ripping-is-only-for-pirates dept.

Vishniac writes "It looks like Disney CEO Michael Eisner is accusing Apple in part for fostering music piracy, particularly with its 'Rip, Mix, Burn' campaign. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Eisner said that the ad suggests to people that 'they can create theft if they buy this computer.' Apple? iMac? Impossible."

2 of 695 comments (clear)

  1. Apple has been quite responsible by feldsteins · · Score: 5, Informative

    What the Great Eared One fails to mention is the fact that Apple has made several important concessions to the music industry in the design of their products.

    First, there is the hard-to-miss "Don't Steal Music" warnings that one finds in Apple's materials. Second, much to the annoyance of consumers, Apple has designed the iPod/iTunes product in order to minimize the opportunity for piracy - it only synchs one way. Yeah there are ways around that but not with Apple software tools.

    Incidentally Jobs has already issued a response that is quite interesting.

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    You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave? Dave? Can you hear me Dave?
  2. Yo Ho by daeley · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, if using an Apple makes me a pirate (and didn't Apple fly a pirate flag from the building they were inventing Macintosh in?), I submit the following:

    Yo Ho
    Yo Ho
    A pirate's life for me
    We're ripping and mixing and burning CDs
    (Upload me hearties yo ho)
    We steal and create theft and don't like Disney!
    (Download me hearties yo ho)

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.