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10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial
itwbennett writes Plaintiffs in the Apple iPod iTunes antitrust litigation complain that Apple married iTunes music with iPod players, and they want $350 million in damages. The lawsuit accuses Apple of violating U.S. and California antitrust law by restricting music purchased on iTunes from being played on devices other than iPods and by not allowing iPods to play music purchased on other digital music services. Late Apple founder Steve Jobs will reportedly appear via a videotaped statement during the trial, scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
It really didn't though. Nearly all the naive idealists in the soviet government got axed by Stalin.
That's because you also don't know what "begging the question" means.
Begging the question actually means assuming that something is true, in the course of trying to prove it.
> This might be true, but, if you look at the contents of any folder you'll find that all the files in it are unrelated, i.e., several songs from several different albums by several different artists. This is Apple we're talking about, there's no way that some of the obfuscation isn't deliberate.
That's exactly what any decent programmer has always done want fast access from code. You want each folder (branch) to end up with approximately the same number of files. The user might load 600 Beatles songs and nothing else, so you use a hash that is not affected by artist name or anything else that might cause them to be similar. Something like md2.