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iTunes DRM Hole Closed
FrYGuY101 writes "As recently covered on Slashdot, there was a hole in iTunes which allowed music to be acquired from the iTunes Music Store without Apple's DRM applied. Well, Apple has just released an update which closes this exploit."
Well now, are we all lined up to thank this "DVD Jon" asshole? That's what he is you know, a fucking asshole who's done us all the favor of fucking up just a little part of iTMS. The very simple and easy to live with rules that Apple laid out are just too much for some people to live with so break it. Apple responds by tightening it up a little more.
All the crying people do about the big bad evil DRM screwing up the world and the "1984" type predictions are going to come true but it'll end up happening because the assholes among us will turn their noses up at every reasonable compromise along the way. When it's all done we'll be using a service that's worse than any of us imagined (if anything at all) and it will be in a sense our own fault.
Here's an idea. If you don't like the rules at iTMS then go buy your music elsewhere and quit screwing with the way the rest of us buy it)
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And they're doing it because of flagrant, widespread, arrogant abuse of the law by a significant minority of the population.
If the assholes hadn't been taking the piss for years, DRM wouldn't have needed to exist. Sooner or later the record labels would have realised there was money to be made from honest customers in on-line music downloads and done it anyway, and it would have been a lot more convenient for those of us who do just want to back up the material, or burn a CD with our favourite mix to listen to in the car. We could have avoided provoking a whole wave of unnecessarily wide-ranging and frequently abused laws along the way, too.
DRM sucks, but the population has brought it upon itself. The assholes broke the law long before the law started becoming silly, and now rather than accepting that they scream "No compromise is acceptable!" as if their right to have the music at all is enshrined in some higher law. Newsflash: this is not the attitude to adopt if you want to start reversing the damage.
Disagreeing is your prerogative, but you have failed to consider another alternative: as on-line distribution with thin margins becomes the dominant form of music sale, the record labels actually are going to start losing money. At that point the business guys at the top will just move into a different market, the guys who actually do good work will be out of a job, and while we'll lose a lot of the manufactured popular crap (but obviously a lot of people do like it; that's why it's popular) we'll also lose a lot of good music.
Most of the record industry isn't U2 or Britney Spears or $BIG_NAME_BAND, and without the publicity and promotional engine provided by the record labels, a lot of the smaller guys -- many of whom got that far by being pretty good at making music -- will lose out.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
You're a fucking retard if you think no compromises are acceptable. You need to understand that if someone makes a "product" then they can decide exactly how they want to sell that product to you within the limits of the law. You have two possible responses. Buy it or don't buy it, end of story. Your "right" to music free of DRM is a figment of your fucking imagination.
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