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Apple Defeats RIAA and France In Same Day
gnat writes "The subheading of the CNN article says it all: 'Four largest record companies defeated in behind-the-scenes battle to charge different prices for songs; downloads still 99 cents'. This comes the same day as France backed down on the posturing over demanding iPod interoperability." From the France article: "Apple, which did not return repeated phone calls, and other DRM holders doing business in France, are likely elated. While the law must still be voted on, the alterations in the legislation signify willingness by some in the French government to honor the rights of companies that don't wish to share their technology with competitors. Senate debate on the bill begins Thursday."
I wonder if Apple can deal with all the Poodles in Paris as well and their poop... ugh.. its a mine field in this city! If you want to share some Frenchly Annoying to anyone, you should check out www.sayitfromfrance.com quite funny! And you can share some poodle cards with friends (or enemies) :-)
So how is this news again?
This isn't the first time, nor likely the last.
Apple is a wolf in sheep clothing. I don't understand why anyone would ever side with Apple. Their track record is worse than Microsoft, except that they're not as big as Microsoft is.
- Apple spread DRM.
- Apple change the "rules" about how users can use their music (number of CDs a song can be burnt onto was reduced) using the DRM and software updates, even when the songs have ALREADY been purchased by the users.
- Apple sue students for posting rumours about their products on the internet.
- Apple try to talk Samba developers into making Samba non-copyleft so that they can take the code and close Apple's branch of it.
Apple are bastards. People need to start treating them based on how they act (like bastards) rather than who they are (a "little guy" competitor to Microsoft).
Granted there is a limit, but the average consumer doesn't have 5 PC's. If you make some kind of mistake and authorize too many PC's and can't deauthorize one or more of them for whatever reason then you do have the ability to reset your authorizations. You can burn the files to CD as many times as you want. There is a limit to the number of times you can burn a play list that contains DRM's music. I believe that limit is 10, but if you need to burn more than that the solution is pretty easy. Use another program to burn additional copies of the CD. Alternatively you could delete the play list and recreate it. DRM is a fact of life forced on Apple by the RIAA. If you don't like the rules, go buy the CD instead. Apple offers a service. You can get only the tracks you want, almost instantly, at $0.99 cents a track and in exchange for that service you agree to some rules. They don't force you to buy their music.
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There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
OK, I'll give the people what they want:
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Germany, England... Apple?!? Who can't defeat France in one day. Besides they usually just surrender.