While the iTunes/iPod doesn't convert music to their format like the Sony and MS devices do (Shouldn't that be labeled as theft?) you still can't play music you buy from the iTunes store (if DRM'd) on anything else then iTunes/iPods. This is a bit understandable since a shared secret is alot easier to break then an unshared one.
I think apple took this up in their post on their website labeled "thoughts on music" where they claimed that music bought on iTunes only represented about 5% of the total music on iPods and therefor shouldn't be a major consideration when it comes to player.
It's all beside the main point though that was that http://www.ifpi.se/ apparently thought that most of the iTunes music got pirated while from my understanding that is in no way true. And even if it was pirated it's hard to prove that it actually hurt sales in any way.
Well, at least I now know how to get a teacher I dislike into prison for 40 years.
Step 1) Install porn adware on the computer the teacher is going to use. Step 2) Make the teacher use the computer in front of an audience of minors Step 3) ??? Step 4) Profit!
Before the navy had no idea under what label they were supposed to put open source software so they didn't consider it (out of lazyness?). Now open source is defined as a commercial item so the navy can purchase it the same way they do with other software.
However this doesn't seem to in any way prevent the large companies from doing what they always do. Just bribe the officials responsible for deciding what software/hardware to use and get them to make the navy pay for their expensive useless stuff.
I doubt we'll see any great rise in the amount of open source software used in the navy just yet. It's a fairly big step in the right direction though. I would seriously not have thought that one of the big difficulties of using open source was defining it for your paper work o.O
You have a point in that it can be hard to find "unfashionable" things on bittorrent. That's what makes those networks "mostly" and not "completly" obsolete. If you want to find something fairly old (5 years or more) or fairly niche ( like your pdf ebook ) the p2p networks are still the best place to go because of their directory sharing.
In the future of bit torrent though they want to break up files into small pieces independent on the larger file making you able to seed parts instead of files. That way you might start seeing more bit torrent sharing of whole directories.
There is also the people that create humongous torrent files, I saw one on TPB that included basically every game released from 1980 to 1995. Since you can pick what part of the torrent you want to download that seems a fairly good way to store niche/old things.
In the end bit torrent shall rule all:=)
As a part of that making money thing they made sure their system was completely incompatible with anyone elses thanks to DRM and created a nice monopoly:=)
Suppose I could have made the original formulation a bit better, something along the lines of:
"Arn't most iTunes songs supposed to be very hard to pirate thanks to heavy DRM?"
"According to the IFPI, an umbrella organization representing the international recording industry, an estimated 20 billion songs were illegally swapped or downloaded in one year alone (2005). Apple's iTunes, by comparison, has only sold about 2 billion songs since it started in 2003. Moreover, because of P2P, many of those 2 billion legally acquired iTunes song files millions are available for piracy"
The way they write it is as if a majority of the iTunes songs have been pirated.
Or well, maybe the majority of those songs have been available, but it's not very useful when they can only be played on the machine that downloaded them...
From my understanding only one of the big four companies have agreed to release their songs DRM free and that was only recently. Can't be a large part of those two billion.
I think the idea is that SafeMedia can't think of any reason to use any of those P2P networks for anything legal. The network itself is of course legal, I dread the day when they make the protocols for P2P illegal in themselves.
The way their blocker should work if I designed it is that you can pick and choose what networks you want to let through and which you want to block.
Their main objective seems to be the eradication of protocols that doesn't have any "legal" use in businesses and universities. There doesn't exist any proper reason for someone at a university to boot up Kazaa does it? Or well, unless they're making a study on Kazaa I suppose.
As for the name, I suppose they know that their own product won't do any real difference and hint towards it in the name.
Basically it seems they are mostly targeting the mostly obsolete networks like Kaazaa, iMesh, Limewire and eMule. The fact that internet piracy has since moved on to the mostly legal bittorrent network seems to be lost on them.
They also spout strange things like that the 2 billion songs sold on iTunes are being traded over P2P. I thought the point of iTunes was that it was heavily DRM'd?
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While the iTunes/iPod doesn't convert music to their format like the Sony and MS devices do (Shouldn't that be labeled as theft?) you still can't play music you buy from the iTunes store (if DRM'd) on anything else then iTunes/iPods. This is a bit understandable since a shared secret is alot easier to break then an unshared one.
I think apple took this up in their post on their website labeled "thoughts on music" where they claimed that music bought on iTunes only represented about 5% of the total music on iPods and therefor shouldn't be a major consideration when it comes to player.
It's all beside the main point though that was that http://www.ifpi.se/ apparently thought that most of the iTunes music got pirated while from my understanding that is in no way true. And even if it was pirated it's hard to prove that it actually hurt sales in any way.
Well, at least I now know how to get a teacher I dislike into prison for 40 years.
Step 1) Install porn adware on the computer the teacher is going to use.
Step 2) Make the teacher use the computer in front of an audience of minors
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit!
If I understand this correctly.
Before the navy had no idea under what label they were supposed to put open source software so they didn't consider it (out of lazyness?). Now open source is defined as a commercial item so the navy can purchase it the same way they do with other software.
However this doesn't seem to in any way prevent the large companies from doing what they always do. Just bribe the officials responsible for deciding what software/hardware to use and get them to make the navy pay for their expensive useless stuff.
I doubt we'll see any great rise in the amount of open source software used in the navy just yet. It's a fairly big step in the right direction though. I would seriously not have thought that one of the big difficulties of using open source was defining it for your paper work o.O
You have a point in that it can be hard to find "unfashionable" things on bittorrent. That's what makes those networks "mostly" and not "completly" obsolete. If you want to find something fairly old (5 years or more) or fairly niche ( like your pdf ebook ) the p2p networks are still the best place to go because of their directory sharing. In the future of bit torrent though they want to break up files into small pieces independent on the larger file making you able to seed parts instead of files. That way you might start seeing more bit torrent sharing of whole directories. There is also the people that create humongous torrent files, I saw one on TPB that included basically every game released from 1980 to 1995. Since you can pick what part of the torrent you want to download that seems a fairly good way to store niche/old things. In the end bit torrent shall rule all :=)
Eh
:P
*wasn't aware of any copyrighted work that could be illegally downloaded from the websites of Kazaa, iMesh, Limewire or eMule*
Isn't it a bit cheap to claim credit for something accomplished before you even started
You might have meant networks though and I'm unsure how effective their preventive measures are.
As a part of that making money thing they made sure their system was completely incompatible with anyone elses thanks to DRM and created a nice monopoly :=)
Suppose I could have made the original formulation a bit better, something along the lines of:
"Arn't most iTunes songs supposed to be very hard to pirate thanks to heavy DRM?"
"According to the IFPI, an umbrella organization representing the international recording industry, an estimated 20 billion songs were illegally swapped or downloaded in one year alone (2005). Apple's iTunes, by comparison, has only sold about 2 billion songs since it started in 2003. Moreover, because of P2P, many of those 2 billion legally acquired iTunes song files millions are available for piracy"
The way they write it is as if a majority of the iTunes songs have been pirated.
Or well, maybe the majority of those songs have been available, but it's not very useful when they can only be played on the machine that downloaded them...
From my understanding only one of the big four companies have agreed to release their songs DRM free and that was only recently. Can't be a large part of those two billion.
I think the idea is that SafeMedia can't think of any reason to use any of those P2P networks for anything legal. The network itself is of course legal, I dread the day when they make the protocols for P2P illegal in themselves.
The way their blocker should work if I designed it is that you can pick and choose what networks you want to let through and which you want to block.
Adding to my previous post:
Their main objective seems to be the eradication of protocols that doesn't have any "legal" use in businesses and universities. There doesn't exist any proper reason for someone at a university to boot up Kazaa does it? Or well, unless they're making a study on Kazaa I suppose.
As for the name, I suppose they know that their own product won't do any real difference and hint towards it in the name.
If you go to the website of the people making the claim they can erase internet piracy you'll notice a few fun things.
y -Little-Secret.asp
:=)
http://www.safemediacorp.com/Internet-Piracy/Dirt
Basically it seems they are mostly targeting the mostly obsolete networks like Kaazaa, iMesh, Limewire and eMule. The fact that internet piracy has since moved on to the mostly legal bittorrent network seems to be lost on them.
They also spout strange things like that the 2 billion songs sold on iTunes are being traded over P2P. I thought the point of iTunes was that it was heavily DRM'd?
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