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iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song

Posted by Hemos on from the still-going-strong dept.

Macslacker writes "At 10:26 PM PDT on Sunday, July 11, Apple apparently sold its 100 millionth song at the iTunes Music Store. While the contest may now be over, congrats to Apple for a job well done."

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  1. A job well done indeed! by hanssprudel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most of all, I would like to congratulate Apple on their fantastic use of the DMCA to crush free software developer writing applications (PlayFair) that can handle the formats in which they sell music. We like to commend such positive use of the DMCA here on Slashdot, so that perhaps more companies will start using the DMCA and attacking small developers!

    It is very important that companies like Apple help show the world that is completely possible to shove DRM down consumers throwts, and that we will smile, swallow, and ask for more. And then compliment them on a job well done sticking it to us! Perhaps if we do this loudly enough, more and more companies will realize that closed, proprietary, DRMed systems is the way they should be heading, and give them the knowledge and comfort of knowing that we will support them when they attempt to send anybody who reverse engineer these systems to jail!

    Thank you Apple, thank you Jobs, and thank you iTMS for a job well done teaching us to be a soulless, consume-on-command suckers that we are supposed to be. You are helping us realize that how stupid all this talk of a Free Internet intended for open communication between people rather than a closed delivery mechanism for big media really is. The congratulations know no end!

    1. Re:A job well done indeed! by hanssprudel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Oh man am I sick of the apologist bullcrap where Apple can be whatever DMCA wielding DRM monglers they want, and still stay the shining idols of Slashdot because "The RIAA made them do it."

      If I had a store, and the person I bought goods off said I could not sell them to people of a certain ethnic group, then I would tell him to fuck off. Likewise, if I was selling data online, and the person I was buying it off told me I could only sell it under the condition that I shafted my customers freedom and self determination by binding them to shitty laws saying they don't have a right to do as they will with their own computers, I would say the same. The RIAA didn't save Apple's ass with by allowing the iTMS: Apple stepped in and saved the RIAA by legitimatizing DRM. They are loving it.

      And, in the end, I don't give a crap whose fault it is that Apple are peddling DRM and attacking free software developers. If they want to make money then that is fine, and while I hate the laws that allow them to, they are the laws as they stand. What I find disgusting is that such practices get commended and congratulated around here. It frightens me to no end that this community could be so easily subverted and 180ed completely into sycophantic lackeys of the RIAA and those who wish the Internet and PC were no more!

  2. Sorry Kevin.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your taste in music sucks, with your 10,000 iTunes (TM) tracks try some Bach.

  3. Re:I remember... by PyromanFO · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...when DRM was generally considered a bad thing here (remember "fair use"?). Now people get blasted for being "ungrateful" if they criticise Apple's use of DRM (just read some of the comments to this [slashdot.org] story).
    Amen. I don't know when DRM became cool but I know who did it, Apple. It seems like freedoms don't matter much when the packaging is so shiny and new. For everyone's talk about free software around here, it seems most of them are just repeating what gnu.org says in between iTunes purchases. DRM has all the same problems it's had before, people just trust Apple to make it okay. Well look at it like this, they've sold 100 million songs, where has it gotten us? They haven't loosened restrictions and fought for artists rights, they increased restrictions and the artists are still getting the same bad deals. The record labels told Apple to roll over and they did. I don't know how long people are going to keep trusting them to "make it better". Or maybe chains are acceptable if they're shiny enough.
  4. Re:That's great Apple... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    moderators, please read the first post.

    it says "Kazaa serves its 100-billionth song"...i'll translate that for you: it means that he already gave nods to p2p for shear bulk.

    so the parent mentioning that he still gets his music from p2p IS A GODDAMN FUCKING REDUNDANT POST.

    sigh. mods. can't fucking execute them. can't shit in their mouths.

    only if we didn't have fucking stupid people on this planet.

  5. Re:That's great Apple... by Jacer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're a cheap bastard.

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  6. Too Bad by lmsig · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have no right to free music downloads. The people who own/create the music get to make the rules. If you don't like it I have no sympathy for you. What you THINK something should cost means nothing.

    Maybe artists are getting screwed, then they shouldn't have signed on with the big labels.

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  7. Apple's success is an awful thing for consumers by groberts65 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Someone explain to me why this is something to be celebrated. iTunes downloads can only be played on software and hardware SUPPLIED BY ONE VENDOR ! Isn't this what we call a MONOPOLY ?

    I'm no fan of any DRM scheme, but at least WMA downloads (ala Napster) can be played on a wide variety of software and hardware devices and it's licensable technology.

    I'd love for someone to explain to me how Apple escapes the criticism that Microsoft gets for being "proprietary" and a "monopoly". Seems to me that Jobs&Co. are much more guilty of these practices.

  8. 100,000,000,000,000 downloads and counting by koan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    P2P reached a new high with faster speeds, encryption better quality and a cheaper price, why...it doesn't cost anything.

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