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Financial Times on Apple/Real/DMCA Morass

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. Actually by Some+guy+named+Chris · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rather than portray anyone as a villian, I thought the article did a good job of explaining why the DMCA is so bad, and why we shouldn't endorse government sanctioned monopolies of ideas.

    Particularly I thought comparing software interoperability to knock off razor blades effective.

  2. Re:Big suprise by presearch · · Score: 4, Informative

    -3 Uninformed

    AAC is not the same thing as the the FairPlay DRM layer.
    Also, it's not toooo difficult to change the default encoder to one of several that Apple supplies (for free with iTunes).

    You're probably voting for Dubya too I bet.

  3. -1 Flamebait by Anonymous+Codger · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wish I could moderate Pudge's comment. It deserves a nice big Flamebait.

    Yes, DRM sucks. But we wouldn't have the iTunes Music Store without it. Do you really think that the labels would have allowed Apple to provide downloads of their music without some form of DRM?

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