It'll be interesting, because Jobbs has the cheek to claim that the itunes library is ALL DRM because he has to go for consistency and that's why they sell some stuff DRM'd that emusic doesn't.
So.... what if one of the big 4 removes DRM, Apple is faced with the choice of either a) admitting they were lying all along and selling EMI stuff without DRM or b) Putting DRM straight back on.
Yes, I'm sure they wouldn't like someone else having a better product than them. You might actually have something of a point there although shame on Apple for agreeing with them a contract that dictates how others sell. I'm sure WallMart wouldn't sign a contract with Nabisco that meant all Kellogs cereals would have to be sold with "Gives you cancer" scrawled on them in marker.
There's music on other sites that's also sold on itunes, the itunes version has DRM, the other version doesn't.
Don't give me anything about consistent user experience, no DRM doesn't STOP them doing anything they currently do. If they don't do anything they couldn't do before they would never notice. It would help his case since people might start to question more strongly some of the other tracks.
Oh true, but in this case it's already won said oscar, had said boost and apparently that wasn't enough for DW.
That said, there were only 3 in the running for that oscar and even working in Blockbuster at the time it was just about every major animated film I'd heard of that year. (As I recall it beat Corpse Bride, Howl's castle and possibly Madagascar)
Agreed, it used to be just a lot of the commentators that were morons. Unfortunately since Slashdot was bought by the Linux equivilent of Microsoft it's become a simple propaganda machine.
I don't get into downloading movies - got better things to do than chase my tail with all the garbage files, encrypted RAR files that ask you to go to installspyware.com with Internet explorer to get a password only to find out that the file has some 60 year old movie you never heard of and now your machine is part of a botnet (no, I dont' do it but i know people who do).
If you actually believe any of this is generally the case then the RIAA have done a better job than I thought.
Without getting into it, unless I'm dumb enough to have used Kazaa in the last 5 years I simply don't see these things anymore.
However, when it comes to movies, you're talking about a solid one to two hour viewing. If Blockbuster worked like Barnes and Noble, they'd have little to no rentals or purchases - people would watch a movie and leave.
And to extend this point, wherever you read that book, you're getting the full experience. Whereas watching a movie on the TV screens round Blockbuster is absolutely not comparable to at home in your comfy chair with 5.1 and a beer.
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It'll be interesting, because Jobbs has the cheek to claim that the itunes library is ALL DRM because he has to go for consistency and that's why they sell some stuff DRM'd that emusic doesn't.
So.... what if one of the big 4 removes DRM, Apple is faced with the choice of either a) admitting they were lying all along and selling EMI stuff without DRM or b) Putting DRM straight back on.
It doesn't, however the post I replied to said that Apple wasn't a monopoly, which is simply not true.
Apple has a monopoly on MP3 players in a legal sense and has been convicted in Norway of abusing that.
Next.
Yes, I'm sure they wouldn't like someone else having a better product than them. You might actually have something of a point there although shame on Apple for agreeing with them a contract that dictates how others sell. I'm sure WallMart wouldn't sign a contract with Nabisco that meant all Kellogs cereals would have to be sold with "Gives you cancer" scrawled on them in marker.
Well quite apart from the fact you're wrong there's nothing to stop a "Purchased - Protected" and "Purchased - Not crippled" category.
Nice move on personally insulting the grandparent poster though. Really drives your point home.
The simple fact that he's lying.
There's music on other sites that's also sold on itunes, the itunes version has DRM, the other version doesn't.
Don't give me anything about consistent user experience, no DRM doesn't STOP them doing anything they currently do. If they don't do anything they couldn't do before they would never notice. It would help his case since people might start to question more strongly some of the other tracks.
Oh true, but in this case it's already won said oscar, had said boost and apparently that wasn't enough for DW.
That said, there were only 3 in the running for that oscar and even working in Blockbuster at the time it was just about every major animated film I'd heard of that year. (As I recall it beat Corpse Bride, Howl's castle and possibly Madagascar)
And that's just it. 95% of all your windows crashes? Those drivers.
Well it's not theirs to control but given they were the dumbasses that put the functionality there, it's still their fault.
If she's the literally Britney Spears that's good work.
Because the market she's actually going for is the same level as "Roger Red Hat", "Spot the Dog" and "Where's Waldo?".
If nothing else, she's got young kids reading full length books in a way no-one else has managed in the (ugh) "Playstation era".
If she's Britney, she's Britney when before there was only "The wheels on the bus go round and round"
If they don't know those things they're going to last 10 minutes in Linux anyway.
Oscars don't come with cheques.
Agreed, it used to be just a lot of the commentators that were morons. Unfortunately since Slashdot was bought by the Linux equivilent of Microsoft it's become a simple propaganda machine.
Except as soon as they make OSX run on PCs it'll get every problem windows has within a year.
Trying to support every hardware will make it much, much wobblier than windows because MS will have done it for longer.
And if it ever becomes the majority, all the malware writers will target OSX itself, just as effectively as they do windows.
Just to add another name to that list, Cisco's reasonably constant TV ads.
There's not a huge number of people who buy Cisco consumer equipment (excluding the linksys stuff that isn't in these ads) but it's name recognition.
Well that very much depends on the film.
My DVDs of Futurama have been watched as many times as any of my books and several films certainly made me think.
Whereas there are plenty of throwaway books just as there are films.
I don't get into downloading movies - got better things to do than chase my tail with all the garbage files, encrypted RAR files that ask you to go to installspyware.com with Internet explorer to get a password only to find out that the file has some 60 year old movie you never heard of and now your machine is part of a botnet (no, I dont' do it but i know people who do).
If you actually believe any of this is generally the case then the RIAA have done a better job than I thought.
Without getting into it, unless I'm dumb enough to have used Kazaa in the last 5 years I simply don't see these things anymore.
However, when it comes to movies, you're talking about a solid one to two hour viewing. If Blockbuster worked like Barnes and Noble, they'd have little to no rentals or purchases - people would watch a movie and leave.
And to extend this point, wherever you read that book, you're getting the full experience. Whereas watching a movie on the TV screens round Blockbuster is absolutely not comparable to at home in your comfy chair with 5.1 and a beer.
You try seeing now much you can read off a DVD without the hole in the middle.
Yes, BBC news are PC journalists.
Or perhaps they're covering the actual story.
One computer manufacturer with 1% of the market stops using floppies - Floppies not dead.
The biggest PC store chain in the country selling to the everyman stops selling the disks - floppies might just be dead.
Given this is already not the case for x64 and I believe for the later slipstreamed SP2s then yes, I'm sure they will.
And the joke will be on you when all your favourite series die.
Note the recent deaths of a lot of good sci-fi such as Firefly.
Wonder how much of that was that the target market were just downloading it...
And of course the Mac could well be running Windows too.
In fact, the PC could be running Linux and the Mac Windows.
I'll be using option 5.
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Buy an OEM version like a normal person