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Hilary Rosen Gripes About iPod, iTMS

Posted by timothy on from the now-we-just-need-to-establish-your-price dept.

mijkal writes "Hilary Rosen, the former RIAA CEO and chairwoman, has spoken out against Apple's "lock-in" with iPod and the iTunes Music Store." From the article: "The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD's." Ironically, she appeals to consumer rights and anti-monopoly tactics."

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  1. Girlfriend by fembots · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The new iPod my girlfriend gave me is a trap"

    Completely offtopic, but Hilary is a female name, right? So what gives? My tiny brain does not understand.

    Imagine if Jobs said "The new Creative Zen Micro my boyfriend gave me is teh crap"

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    Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
    1. Re:Girlfriend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Nah she's just a raving lesbo I mean come on look at her hair, my gaydar says closet homoet.

  2. Re:Irony? Dripping with molten iron! by The+Bungi · · Score: 1, Troll
    I dunno. Maybe you're a consumer now. Or just another cyberslut.

    Perhaps she's complaining because she doesn't follow the party line that permeates your world - namely that customer lock-in and DRM are bad only when they come from Microsoft or someone else, but A-OK when they come from Apple.

    I agree that she's not exactly the best person in the world to stand up for customer rights, but she does make that point, I think.

    Maybe you didn't catch that, though you seem to have read the whole thing. Score one for highly selective cognisance.

    I love that someone modded you up to +5 though.

  3. MAKES SENSE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only a dyke could be such a two-faced, lying bitch as Hilary.

    When women aren't kept in check with a penis, they start doing all kinds of dumb bullshit.

  4. Re:Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. by farble1670 · · Score: -1, Troll
    assuming you're a fellow, how about i come over to your house and "share" your wife / partner? for thousands of years women have been the common property of men in western society. point: your opinion of the way western society may have worked in the past, while all so terribly interesting, isn't relevant.

    the RIAA is simply enforcing the laws ... the laws that are in the interest of the recording companies AND THE ARTISTS. yeah, so it's less in the interest of the artists, but i bet you won't find many successful artists (the ones whose music is being illegally copied) that will disagree with a law that would cut their income to a fraction of what it is today.

    if you want to be a rebel, buy independent music, or buy a guitar and write your own music. those are your options. if there were no copyright laws, those would be your only options anyway. go live your life the way you want, nobody is going to stop you.