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Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link
btempleton writes "It all started when I prepared yet another Downfall subtitle parody. In this one, Hitler is the studio head, upset at all the Downfall parodies, and he wants to do DMCA takedowns on them all. (If you're a DMCA/DRM fighting Slashdotter, you'll like it.) The EFF, which I chair, blogged it on Deeplinks, and hilarity ensued. That weekend, Exact Magic, an iPhone developer, had submitted a special RSS reader app to display EFF news on the iPhone. Apple's iPhone app store evaluators looked at the RSS reader, read the feed it pointed to, and then played the linked-to video. They saw the F-word flash in the subtitles of the video, and then rejected the RSS-reading tool from the App Store. We're up to several levels of meta here — Apple has banned an app over a parody about banning, and is now parodying itself. Bonus: TFA also has the story of just how hard it is to be fully legal in obtaining the famous clip for parody."
I don't mind if you buy Macs, hey that's your problem if you want to spend 1.5x what the machine is worth for a badge, and I run Linux so the malware isn't a problem. No, the reason I whine about mac fanbois is that you're always coming on to me.
I don't therefore I'm not.
Hey there Anon Coward, as someone who has built and serviced MSFT machines since Win3.xx I got a question for you: What the hell was wrong with the way it was before, where the DRM player came on the damned disc and I didn't have to have it if I didn't want it, huh? 50Gb of space wasn't big enough to drop a 40Mb player on?
Perhaps you might want to read about Protected Path before you spout off? Here let me highlight something for you: "In order to prevent users from copying DRM content, Windows Vista provides process isolation and continually monitors what kernel-mode software is loaded."
You see, that is MY resources they are sucking down like a ziggy piggy for content that I do not now, haven't in the past, nor will I ever have in the future. I have no desire whatsoever to jump on the Sony DRM train so my resources are being blown for nothing. That is of course if I would have kept that bloated train wreck that was Vista. After SP1 left it sucking just as bad as it did before I tossed that garbage and went XP X64 and have never been happier. BTW if you think it has anything to do with allowing BD and poor MSFT got backed into a corner by the evil Sony I suggest you read Comes VS MSFT and look specifically at any emails coming from Ballmer. There he makes it VERY clear that his plan to best Apple in the media markets is to make a DRM so nasty that he'll get all the media companies to go MSFT thanks to their nastier DRM than Apple. Kinda forgot that the iPod pretty much rules the market though.
So as you can read for yourself nasty crap like protected path had NOTHING to do with "Allowing users to play blueray discs that they buy or rent" and everything to do with Ballmer going "Must ^%$^&%%$ KILL APPLE!!!!!" which I think is just funny as hell, as ever since the Ballmer monkey took over all they have tried to do is rip off and show up Apple, which owns 10% of the market, while they screw over their business customers which is where the big bucks are. Brilliant plan there Steve.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I'm an Apple fanboy and even I'm sick of this.
So, as a self-confessed fanboy can you please tell me what exactly would make you give up a company that's behaving so badly? How far do they have to go? I mean would Steve Jobs coming up to you in his turtleneck and whacking you on the head with a rubber mallet be enough? Do they have to try to assassinate a family member? Try to cut off your willie? What exactly? where is the line?
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Don't discount iTunes because of the iTunes Store nonsense. It's a great music manager, especially because it exports an XML file with all songs that can be read by other applications.
M3U files have a trivially simple format, and were standard a long time before itunes came on the scene. What benefits does itunes XML file offer over and above this format?
And while we're at it, what's the deal with ipods needing a database of files (in a non-obvious format that's difficult to work with) in order to be able to play them? Isn't that just to convince people to use itunes, which exists to convince people to buy from itms?
On my playlist, I only have songs I rate at 5 stars.
You only have one playlist? That's the source of your confusion. Because your tastes are so simple you fail to comprehend people who are more complex. I have dozens of playlists. My tastes while at the gym are different than while running outdoors, driving, working all day, relaxing in the evening. I even have these things called "moods" that you might not be familiar with. People who actually have a personality may want to listen to a different sort of music right now than they did 24 hours ago even if they're in the exact same place.
My 5 star playlist has 191 songs in it and I'd be bored out of my head if I only listened to the same 191 songs day after day, month after month. That playlist is only 12.6 hours of music, I'd go through the whole thing every day if that was the only playlist I listened to.
Thank goodness for all the playlists I've created that let me select a genre and hear songs that I haven't played for at least a month.