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Apple Hunts Playfair in India
An anonymous reader writes "A news posting at Sarovar.org says that they have to take down the 'PlayFair' program upon receiving a notice from Apple's attorneys. They are awaiting their attorneys' response. This is bad news for all those who appreciated this cool program. Let's hope that 'PlayFair' might appear in some other country now."
How many Americans will die before Bush is out of office?
That's a load of dingos kidneys.
Apple doesn't give two shits about the consumers or the artists. This is clearly a move to make apple the defacto standard in ALL music.
If you don't like the iTunes Music Store license, don't buy music from it.
Better yet: buy music, and use Playfair so you can listen to it.
Apple tried for the best possible balance in favor of consumers, and did a pretty darn good job
It is a loust job. It requires a KLUDGE solution of burning and re-ripping in order to get a usable file.
It's their service and products; if you don't like it, don't use or buy them. It's your choice.
Choice #3 is the best: buy the songs and get rid of the DRM on them after you pay for them.
When you bought the song on itunes, you agreed to the licence
When I bought the song, I bought the song. Period. I ignored the license. I already owned the song by that point, and it did not matter.
I would like to see some Apple fans respond intelligently to the parent's point:
"So much for apple being different than other large companies..."
Use words, not mod points.
The unofficial
These are great times, watching Apple zealots who will defend Apple to the death no matter what Apple does, fight it out with free-everything zealots who just want to be able to "share" music. Great stuff! Keep it up.
I thought that Apple was different than other large companies?
I don't recall MS sending out C&Ds like they are Christmas cards, but maybe they don't need to as MS has whores and drug pushers working directly with congress.
The undercurrent of control makes me wonder what Apple would be like if they ever deposed MS as market leader.
I love my mac, but don't want to be thrown in the gulag if I change a .plist file. Maybe Steve needs a vacation - relax, take in the scenery, enjoy a massage with a happy ending.
I'd like Apple to do well, but not at the loss of freedom to use my computer and the files I make and use with it.
Absolutely dead on fucking correct.
Every single person complaining about Apple doing this is irrelevant to the whole concept of iTunes. They're either flat out thieves who aren't going to be happy with anything that anyone on the face of the earth comes up with unless it gives them the "keys to the kingdom" with no questions asked or they're hair splitting posers who'll bitch about it on principle alone until the sun burns out.
The rest of us are buying our music and enjoying it and the almost invisible DRM that has to be there. End of story
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and sling or table good to write you like I shouxld be short of a miracle
I have no idea what will become of the sarovar situation. I can't blame either SourceForge or Sarovar for taking down my project, although I'm not sure why the FAAC project is allowed to be hosted there: that library is the one that is actually decoding the DRM. :-)
If anyone has any ideas on where I can move this project such that I won't have to move it again, please email me. Bitching all day on /. will not get it up and downloadable again. Finding me a place to keep playfair will.
Whoever you are GIVE YOUR (fill in whatever it is you do for a living) AWAY.
Or buy a fucking guitar. See how "easy" it is.
Simon Moon, the leader of SR, was arrested because swiss authorities were investigating against a child pornography ring, and S.M. was one of the suspects. Eventually, they found evidence on one of his servers, which also happened to host one of the database-services for SR.com.
This had nothing to do with piracy in the first place.
What an abuse of the moderation system. Some mod must love sucking on apple's cock of online music.
A perfectly good, valid comment and a great analogy, yet some apple-pole-smoking moderators decide no one can speak out against apple.
Well here is a nice big Fuck You to both of the cock suckers that decided to mod this guy down. You're both fucking clown shoes. Asshats like you should not breed.
Seriously, I welcome the fact that I can go and instantly buy a single song I heard and liked for 99 cents. The one thing that upsets me is that just because someone's being all bitchy about any DRM, this solution is possibly in jeopardy. If you want the song without DRM, go get it on some P2P network. Is there any song that's available on Apple's store that's not already available ripped straight from CD to MP3/OGG/MP4/WMA? The only thing this guy's doing is weakening Apple's ability to assuage the RIAA's fears about digital distribution, threatening the distribution medium and process altogether.
This is a bullshit argument as well. Theft of services is still theft, yet nobody misses any PHYSICAL goods. "It's not theft, it's just an IP violation." is the dumbest goddamned thing I've ever fucking read. It's still illegal. Get the fuck over it.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.