Financial Times on Apple/Real/DMCA Morass

Posted by pudge on Friday August 20, 2004 @05:55AM from the all-your-music-are-belong-to-us dept.

drpickett writes "The Financial Times are carrying an editorial by James Boyle concerning the nascent battle between Apple and Real. Good comments on the DMCA issues. Article sort of portrays Apple as a bunch of close-system types who got the 5% market share that they deserve for shunning interoperability. No mention is made of Real as the poster child for closed formats and cheap spyware tactics." And no mention noting what Real and Apple are really fighting over: who gets to profit from the destruction of the users' freedom.

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Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-20 06:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

As soon as Microsoft enters the market for digital music, both are dead.

The article might just as well argue on whether Amiga or BeOS would be the OS of the future.
Re:-1 Uninformed Opinion -- mod parent up! by slughead · 2004-08-20 08:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I hate iTMS fanboys.

"DRM and the DMCA is t3h suck.. wait, Apple's doing it to sell iPods? OMG r0x0rz!!"

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