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Norway Outlaws iTunes
haddieman notes that while many people are getting more and more annoyed at DRM, Norway actually did something about it. The PC World article explains: "Good intentions, questionable execution. European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law.
The crux of the issue is that the Fairplay DRM that is at the heart of the iTunes/iPod universe doesn't work with anything else, meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod."
Oh? So you mean I can go write myself a program to decrypt and play PlaysForSure media on my Linux or Macintosh computer? Without having to bend over and hand all my rights (and license fees) to Microsoft?
Yeah, you're completely wrong. Shut the fuck up.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Hey Hippy Apple Fanboi, I am sure you were one of the audience here.
Stop being a sucker for once and understand the difference between DRM and monopoly.
Maybe Nintendo should be illegal. I can't play PS3 or X-Box games on them.
Europe has it in for US companies in general, and has had it in for years. The problem is they are hardly in a position to offer viable alternatives for US products or if they do are so regulated its impossible for the company to move beyond being smaller than a US company would be.
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brilliant, thanks for that link. Only thing they missed was him saying "Are you getting this?", pretentious patronising ijerk, I can't believe he said that, like it's difficult to comprehend or was totally unpredicted or anything. /rant
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
DRM'ed music is ~crap. You are allowed to buy crap. But crap that locks you into a certain vendor of crap is illegal - especially when the vendor have such a high market share. Thats the case.
Jefferson was a fucktard. His so-called architectural style was the ugliest ever inflicted by man on mankind. And the farming. Always with the fucking farming. We get it, Tom, you resent the urbanists for being smarter and better-dressed than you. Your loss.
Hamilton's my man and I stand by him still. He'd have stood up for intellectual property rights, I guarantee you that.
comma
You are correct. You can.
The problem is Apple doesn't allow you to,
and you have agreed to that.
God lord...
You are so right!
There is nothing more to this case. You summed up everyghing.
I agree. "Case closed"
Too bad no one listened to you.
I'm looking forward to more comments from you on other things which matters.
Getting off topic, the troll does have a point. Federalism is designed to let different states be different. The fact that I desire universal health care does not mean that everyone should have to go along with it. Perhaps everyone would be better off if we had a limited federal government with increased powers to the states. That way, people in Mississippi can get back to executing homosexuals and the rest of us can forget they exist. In fact the so-called "socialist" states usually end up paying more in federal income tax than they receive. At the end of the day, it is the red states that sponge off of the blue ones when it comes to federal tax money. How's that for personal responsibility?
Power to the states means that people like James Inhofe and Trent Lott have less say in my life. I don't have any say in who backwater hicks elect to Congress. What I can do is minimize the influence their decisions have on me.