Because you're still going to have paranoid people (who most likely were never going to buy from iTunes anyway) up in arms about a unique, secret string hidden in every purchased song.
How many people who steal iPods then upload the music on said iPod to a P2P network? How many people who steal iPods know how to get the music off the iPod in the first place?
I'm guessing that number is pretty damn close to zero.
Besides, if you've filed a police report, in the very unlikely event of this sequence of events occuring, and you ending up at the barrel of a lawsuit for it, you can show that the iPod (presumably containing said songs) was stolen.
When have BIOS passwords been meant as an actual security device? At least in older IBM notebooks, the BIOS battery has been easily removable, resetting the entire CMOS after a while.
I'm going to call BS. You've never seen a computer where the results of the virus infection are worse than Norton? While I'll completely agree that Norton is a horrible product, (very ineffective in my experience, resource hungry - try running it on a single core XP installation with 256MB RAM) you've got malware which will take 100% CPU time constantly, completely stop explorer.exe from loading, pester you every 2 minutes to purchase it and that's only visible effects, not counting what it's doing behind the scenes (keylogging, sending spam, etc.)
Just because something doesn't interest you, it doesn't mean it doesn't appeal to others who read Slashdot. And most people who play Guitar Hero are in their 20s and 30s, at least in my experience.
The real question is on how many of those laptops does Linux remain after purchase, and how many of them are wiped and have XP Pro pirated edition installed on them?
Why are you involving IPv6 at all if it doesn't involve networking? I'm pretty sure most normal companies would use a serial number for that purpose, which existed before IPv6 and would continue to exist if IPv6 died today.
And you use the word "anticompetitive" in a funny way. You make it sound like Apple's business motive is making money off battery replacements. Apple sells iPods/Macs/iPhones, not batteries. The battery is an incidental, and probably even less profitable than the iTunes store.
Because having a non user replacable battery won't encourage the sale of new iPods/Macs/iPhones when the battery no longer holds enough charge.
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IIRC the OSX DVD is dual layer, whereas the Vista one is single layer.
That's because Windows Media Player is free.
"This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows"
So no, it's not free. You just don't pay for it because it's incorporated into the cost of the Windows licence.
The e-mail address has been part of every file sold by iTunes, it's just it obviously can't be seen in clear text when FairPlay has been applied.
Because you're still going to have paranoid people (who most likely were never going to buy from iTunes anyway) up in arms about a unique, secret string hidden in every purchased song.
How many people who steal iPods then upload the music on said iPod to a P2P network? How many people who steal iPods know how to get the music off the iPod in the first place?
I'm guessing that number is pretty damn close to zero.
Besides, if you've filed a police report, in the very unlikely event of this sequence of events occuring, and you ending up at the barrel of a lawsuit for it, you can show that the iPod (presumably containing said songs) was stolen.
I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of users have never heard of a WRI file.
I'm using UKOnline (owned by Sky) and the article page (with 200x200 image) loads without an issue, but the image returns HTTP 404 - Object Not Found.
When have BIOS passwords been meant as an actual security device? At least in older IBM notebooks, the BIOS battery has been easily removable, resetting the entire CMOS after a while.
I'm going to call BS. You've never seen a computer where the results of the virus infection are worse than Norton? While I'll completely agree that Norton is a horrible product, (very ineffective in my experience, resource hungry - try running it on a single core XP installation with 256MB RAM) you've got malware which will take 100% CPU time constantly, completely stop explorer.exe from loading, pester you every 2 minutes to purchase it and that's only visible effects, not counting what it's doing behind the scenes (keylogging, sending spam, etc.)
Assuming you have a reliable postal service.
Just because something doesn't interest you, it doesn't mean it doesn't appeal to others who read Slashdot. And most people who play Guitar Hero are in their 20s and 30s, at least in my experience.
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The real question is on how many of those laptops does Linux remain after purchase, and how many of them are wiped and have XP Pro pirated edition installed on them?
Is that refunded to the original payment method, or refunded to a Google account like they tried to pull off with the Google Video purchases?
Why are you involving IPv6 at all if it doesn't involve networking? I'm pretty sure most normal companies would use a serial number for that purpose, which existed before IPv6 and would continue to exist if IPv6 died today.
Probably somewhere in the region of never if Apple have any say over it.
And you use the word "anticompetitive" in a funny way. You make it sound like Apple's business motive is making money off battery replacements. Apple sells iPods/Macs/iPhones, not batteries. The battery is an incidental, and probably even less profitable than the iTunes store.
Because having a non user replacable battery won't encourage the sale of new iPods/Macs/iPhones when the battery no longer holds enough charge.
If only Apple had released a cell phone... I guess they could call it the iPhone or something.
Do you really have to keep spamming this and the apple is evil post on every article?
I didn't think the White House really represented democracy anymore...
Congratulations?
Same with Random House, who found that none of their DRM-free audiobooks were pirated.
Do that many people 'buy' rogue anti-virus/spyware programs? Obviously so, since there is still a market for it.
AnyDVD HD is claimed to circumvent BD+