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Real Feels iTunes Backlash

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-else-happens-in-august dept.

BunkAsInBed writes "CNET reports RealNetwork's recent campaign against the iTunes music network that involved tactics like slashing the costs of their downloads in half, reverse engineering Apple's FairPlay format (Harmony), and recently an online petition and bulliten board have received the opposite reponse that was anticpated."

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  1. bulletin not bulliten you morons by atari2600 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'll bite this - i have absolutely no patience for people who cannot spell. When i see an online website which has content with bad spelling, that site in my opinion is second grade. The word is spelt as "bulletin" - enough morons on slashdot cannot spell for crying out loud - now CmdrTaco doesn't mind the crap in posts as well. Yay!! Stop spelling words the way you pronounce them. Go back to school - take an English course - buy a self-help book - please do something instead of posting on slashdot. I remember a few years back when /. used to be a nice place to visit - all i see now are teen kiddie trolls who cannot spell. Go and mod me as low as you can. Also sadly the people who spell words they way they pronounce them have English as their first language.

  2. Re:Nothing to do with iTunes. by ilmdba · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    no shit. if we were talking about Real hacking a Microsoft player/DRM, people around here would be partying in the streets...

  3. Re:apple fans by oscast · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And what if I wanted to take some of your intalectual or physical property?... Why shouldn't I be allowed to?

  4. Re:Many of the petition's responces... by gurps_npc · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    For the same reason that my TV does not only play NBC (NBC once made TV's), my Radio does not only play one station, and my car can use gasoline from more than one gasoline company.

    There is NO good reason for Apple to forbid people from using the MACHINE they purchased from Apple from playing music they purchased from Real.

    You have it backwards. Real is NOT trying to control what plays on the iPod, Apple is trying to prevent people from using the device they sold to those people with content not sold by Apple. That is illegal. Anti-trust action. For a long time corporations have been trying to get rid of the anti-trust laws in the US, but they still exist, no matter how much they try to get around them. It is ILLEGAL for me to make a machine and then attempt to prevent others from selling add-ons, including content to the machine.

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  5. Fuck the itunes music store by JThundley · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck the Itunes music store altogether, it's bad for musicians: http://downhillbattle.org/itunes/