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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.
I bet I'll make out in the tens of cents, maybe even the dollars if I'm lucky.
I meant to make a joke with my original posting, but you chose to bleat something about politics... So, here it is...
The naivette is all yours. If Lenin was any better than Stalin, it was not at all obvious. It was he, who presided over campaign of mass-murder known as Red Terror — including killing off of the Russian clergy. And, yes, he not only tolerated, but ordered taking — and executing — of the opponents' hostages, among other steps...
For decades Commy-sympathizers like yourself have been singing a variety of tunes to the effect that "Communism is good, Stalin was bad". No way, no how — every time Communism was attempted in earnest, it resulted in mass-murder followed by decades of miserable existence for survivors robbed of both economic wealth and human rights.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The underlying cause of this tolerance of mass-murder — which leads to occasional outbreaks of actual mass-murder — is the collectivist notion, that the glorious Collective ought to trump the cantankerous Individual — for The Greater Good. Once you accept it, there is no stopping...
The US too had a Civil War — 50 years before Russia. There was plenty of killing, some of it unwarranted, but there were no mass-murders. That, in my not so humble opinion, is because we are (or were) an Individualist country.
On contrast, 70 years before our Civil War here, France too had its own — being a Collectivist society, they had an awful lot of mass-executions. The guillotine — invented for easy butchering of animals — was adopted to killing humans instead... Soviet revolutionaries thought of Jacobines fondly, while vowing not to repeat their mistakes (that is, not killing enough enemies).
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
And here's a different naive idealist.
Collectivism is an inevitable consequence of society. Society is an inevitable consequence of humanity. Deal with it.