Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 14, 2007 @02:26AM from the future-of-gizmos dept.

Nrbelex writes "Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest "features" in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, 'fairplay'. Stross writes, 'If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.... You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.' Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the pas, continue to go unnoticed?"

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Re:Just rip your CD's fool by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-14 04:32 · Score: -1, Redundant

"One interesting fact... I subscribed to eMusic back when they had an unlimited plan available about 4 years ago. I grabbed about 20GB of music off there in a single month- pretty much the entire collection of everything I liked at the time. I really wish they would bring that back."

You are the reason they won't bring that back.