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OS X Conference DRM Panel Video Available Online
gnat writes "Tucked away on the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference presentations page are links to Quicktime video and mp3 audio recordings of the Digital Rights Management panel featuring Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Cory Doctorow of the EFF, and others. (My apologies for the sometimes shaky video--three Cokes for breakfast is the anti-steadicam)"
QT streaming from OS X only takes a few minutes to set up, BTW.
/. effect? :)
Find out for yourself why these files are surviving the legendary
"Oh, the final component of the iPod DRM system: a small etching in the steel on the back of it which reads Don't Steal Music"
No there isn't.
"Technologies that can modified by end users, that is to say Open source are explicitly not allowed in contexts where digital streams are allowed to come into contact with them because you could change them to geek around the restrictions that are being put in by Hollywood. So this is also a proposal to ban open source.
The technology companies, by and large going along with it. And this is why we are here today. We want to find out how it is we can shift the technology companies from a sort of duck and cover perspective to going on the offensive. Because when technologists, who are part of a 600 billion dollar American industry, go on the offensive against Hollywood, a 35 billion dollar American industry, THEY WIN.
"Two really important things you can do, one is you can tell five friends. Cause most people don't know this is going on. Most people don't know that there are three separate onslaughts on the ability of technologists to build any device that they want to. right now, internationally, in congress and in the FCC. Right now, going on, that if they succeed will be the death of their industry. And tell five friends in the technology industry just let them know so they can tell five friends. So we need a burgeoning consciousness of this. We need a million Slashdot readers to actually care about it and not just natalie portman or hot grits. And the last thing you can do is... um.. you can.. Boy! I just blew my buffer. What is the last thing you can do?"
~ Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Alright, I'm being careful with my use of words.
I own an iPod.
As such, it's designed to make listening to MP3s easy. That means it's trivial to update, synch, and upload music to the device.
I did not use the word 'copy'.
It's also trivial to copy music with an iPod. It is an external firewire drive, and you only need to enable that option within iTunes.
If you're bitching because iTunes itself does not allow you to synch from an iPod->iTunes, then you're complaining that Apple didn't design music offload capabilities into an MP3 player, which isn't strictly a requirement of an MP3 player. Clearly it's useful for an MP3 player to be able to synch; iTunes->iPod is trivial, just plug and forget.
Synching from iPod->iTunes is not a function of an MP3 player any more than allowing an MP3 player to open your garage door. However, the capability to copy music, as I mentioned above, exists.
Drag files from computer->iPod.
Drag files from iPod->computer.
Were you looking for something else, perhaps? Apple including a checkbox on iTunes, 'Download music from iPod'?
GPL Deconstructed
Blockquoth the poster:
*begin Inigo Montoya impression*
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
*end Inigo Montoya impression*
ADB is a device bus, not a keyboard layout. Apple hasn't used ADB since it first introduced USB on the iMac in 1998.