Have you seen their stock price lately. After taking a massive hit yesterday of over 20% it's down 38% more right now. Opened at $2.00 and is now at $1.24 a 38% drop. Wow what a freefall.
If you gather information like this on a politician or government employee, just the act of doing so is considered a threat.
Just as long as they realise that it's perfectly legal now to threaten them that way due to their decision. Maybe they will change their mind which is the whole point.
As a general comment, the arguably stupid part of the fixation on SUVs is that if everyone stopped driving them tomorrow and drove a Prius instead, it would have a negligible impact on oil consumption in the US. That fixation is fundamentally misplaced.
I fail to see the logic. I fill my Prius for $20 and drive 400 miles. I hear people talk about $60 to fill the tank. Cutting consumption by almost half is arguably stupid how? Using half the oil consumption for personal transportation would have a negligible impact on oil consumption how? Please explain. Ya I know that trucks, buses, trains, etc would not be a factor, or could they?
I saw an article in the local paper where the local train switchyard just got a hybrid yard engine with impressive results. Japan has Hybrid buses. It's on the way folks.
It's nearly as entertaining as watching them gets the kids out of the car to guide them into the parking space.
I second that one. I drive a Prius. My wife drives a Dodge Caravan. One fits into compact spaces, the other does not. One turns sharp, the other one almost hits the next row of cars backing out of a space trying to turn. I hate parking the van in small parking lots. It doesn't turn sharp enough. It requires a jog or two to line up with a space to get in or out. The Prius on the other hand can do a u-turn into the space on the the other side of the isle and pull right in.
Even if minivans get marginally better mileage than SUVs, they still both have very poor (passenger*miles)/gallon, because they are both usually driven with few passengers.
In many families, a minivan is required to get everyone to church on Sunday. My daily commute is now in a carpool and I drive a Prius. On days I'm home with the kids, the wife takes the Prius for shopping and errands due to the cost of filling the van.
The number of cars and the reduced number of miles driven is only part of the data. Show me the data where the van or SUV is left home more and the small car is now used for the commute and errands.
So if a private investigator uses pretexting to get my medical records, can I sue both the PI and the MPAA?
Think the other way..
Pretend to be a specialist physician and ask for the head of the MPAA's, city councel members, Govener's, etc., medical records because you need them to evaluate his condition. Post results online. They made it legal for the first part. Posting online might not be legal, but it makes a great protest move. Pass the information of the protest to the local press.
-Or that third parties seem to be more than willing to believe someone on the other side of the phone is whoever they claim to be.
Just to cut down on fraud attempts, we have a phone policy. Take the caller's information and phone number, take their business information including address city and state. Ask if the number given is the number in the yellow pages. If the number isn't in the yellow pages, ask why not. Tell them you will call back in 20 minutes at the number in the yellow pages. I the number isn't in the yellow pages (online), then inform them to get listed to be considered a valid business that may be there if I need service with the product later. This tends to give some call centers a bad case of stress and weeds out the fly by night operations.
I guess we need to tighten up the policy to give no information until the above information gathering is completed to deny those trying to just obtain information.
Can you see the fun in having the MPAA try to get me to call back under false pretenses.
Isn't it already a crime to pass yourself off as someone else? I thought it was fraud.
Sometimes if you pass yourself off as someone else. However sometimes you just don't want to be bugged for your actions. That is why bug me not websites and 10 minute e-mail accounts exist. I'm not passing myself off as somebody else, I'm viewing content and don't wish to fill out a consumer survey card with my DOB, address, name, earnings, marital status, etc just to read a newspaper online. It's not fraud and not intended to decieve. It's intended to keep the junk mail and phising attacks down. I know when I get an E-Bay phishing e-mail. All of them are. I don't have an E-Bay account. The same is true for most other phishing attempts. There is no way I'll leaving proper bank details with an online lender to have compromised later for targeted phishing attacks. If I want quotes for your rate, post the range online. Don't use the ad for stuffing your e-mail campaign. You get a 10 minute account with no fraud intended. It's a bug me not thing, not a fraud thing.
I've lost the ability to record FM on my Creative Zen with my last firmware update... ostensibly, though I can't confirm it because of industry pressure on Creative -- it was one of the features I bought it for.
If the feature is broken on the player, send it in to the manufacture to have it repaired. Post the results online in any review. Don't accept no quietly. Thank you for posting that tidbit here. I'll keep watching to see if it's a fluke with your unit or something worthy of a class action.
Look on the bright side. They just made sure social engineering to obtain personal information on politicians perfectly legal. I think it's time to show them what legal advantages they have given their people. Anyone care to open a public database online in California with government officials personal information? Start with judges, city councel, and the like. Think of the children. Listing all the children's DOB, SSN, school, home address, IM username, ISP, IP address, and such should be a good wake up call to the error they just enabled.
I did. The page you didn't look at are the mini cruzer thumb drives. None of them have a write protect switch. You are correct that they do make a SD card which also has a USB port. However many retailers do not carry it. Therefore when searching retailers shelfs for a thumb drive with a write protect switch, I came up empty.
You have to look in the CF section for SD drives to find that beast, not the USB thumb drive section. So unless you knew what to look for and that it even exists, you are unlikely to find a USB thumb drive with a write protect switch on most retailers shelves. That has been the case when I last was looking and bought thumb drives. I got some Cruizer Mini drives without a switch. I use them for other transfers, but not bootable diagnostic drives.
Gnutella, eDonkey, and Bittorrent clients are available for OS X.
I remembered one of the defense items in an RIAA lawsuit is a Mac does not run the Kaza client. I wasn't sure about the others so I listed the bunch that Windows does run and Apple does not run them all.
Not many youngsters own new cars either, but I'd hardly say that spells doom for the car companies.
I found it madening that it was easier to get financing on a new car than on an older car.. I wanted an older car because I was in the service, may (will) relocate to another country within 2 years. Full coverage insurance was not an option. I talked to an insurance agent before I bought a car (good thing). Being single, male, under 25, out of your home of record state, all conspired to make insurance rates close to the car payments.
Since I had trouble with finding financing for a used car, and didn't want to take the depreciation hit on a new car, I was limited to buying an off the back of the lot junker for $600 cash. The first year savings in insurance paid for the car. A car loan mandates full coverage. I would have about broken even if I totaled a car every year. I came out ahead since I drove the car for 2 1/2 years and then sold it for almost my purchase price. I drove for the price of insurance, gas, oil, 1 set of tires, and a new muffler and about $5/month depreciation.
An under 25 male first time car buyer wants a paid for car, libality only insurance and no car payments. Who needs a car if you can't buy gas?
Linux is an option, but it would take me weeks to build and tweak a configuration to the point that I'm happy with it and feel it would serve her needs, and I don't have that kind of time (although Ubuntu out of the box is darned close).
My dad is on dial-up. I showed him Ubuntu even tho I am in the older demographic. My dad asked me to send him a Ubuntu CD and asked for the latest version. I sent him 6.06 and 6.10 and explained the 6.06 has long 3 year support. He installed it himself and had trouble with low resolution. He dropped by last week and after we swapped out the 1 meg graphics card, everyting is working fine. A long time ago I got him to use an Actiontec Dual PC modem so he and my mom could share a phone line, so there was no problems with modems. Printers and everyting else installed and worked fine. If you are out in the boonies and running Windows, I do recommend the Actiontec Dual PC modem. The e-mail exploits that use your modem to make expensive long distance calls for you simply don't work. The Dual PC Modem does not use AT commands and is pretty resistant from making any calls other than the ISP.
Couple that with the fact that that demographic has a hell of a lot of disposable cash, and Apple looks fricking brilliant.
I think the article is a mass jump to the wrong conclusion.
Case in point.. College age. What do they use a computer for? Does Apple do Kaza, bearshare, e-mule, and Bittorrent? What format are the popular games.
The college folks parrents.. Do they need the latest MPAA copyright and RIAA copyright violation? They don't go to concerts and buy movie tickets. They wait for it to come out on DVD and rent it for the family to watch together. Do they want to play the latest FPS or online game? They are looking for a machine that won't catch the latest Windows exploit. They do mail, taxes, and maybe a little solitare. Stability is the key.
This is not a case of Apple is more expensive as the primary reason. It may be a factor, but the primary reason is it's the applications stupid!
I think I've mainly seen them as Compact Flash, so you'd need a USB CF-card reader, but those are trivially cheap
i have a usb stick with write-protect switch
And how is the switch guarded so it doesn't accidently get flipped? If you glued the switch so it's in the read only mode, I may consider it OK. Otherwise it's suspect. The switch on the SD cards are generaly OK as they are recessed and require a fair amount of force to switch. I would not trust an unguarded switch that is easy to move.
I do not carry diagnostics on a USB flash drive. In an instant they can be silently corrupted without you knowing. They don't have a write protect. That alone makes them unusable to carry from client to client. You need idiot proof diagnostic media so an accidental reboot does not permit the worm on a system from hitching a ride with you to your next client. I only permit write protected media for all my diagnostics. A floppy with the write tab punched out or glued open, a single closed session CDR, or DVD is OK, but a writable USB drive is not OK to use by service people at my site.
The second I find myself paying a surcharge on a device I purchase to the RIAA I will make a point of not purchasing music for that device
Already done.. Music CDR and sneakernet. I do not use music CDR's to back up my music library. I use it to trade my music library. Piracy royalty is pre-paid.
There isn't a single unlicensed track anywhere on my iPod. Not even one unauthorized sample. If the music cartels start charging me for music that I haven't downloaded, ripped, or otherwise pirated, then I'm going to have to stop spending money at iTMS and my local funky CD shop, and treat that "royalty charge" as a blanket license to their entire library.
That is why I use Music CDR's for all my sneakernet music. The royalty tax for piracy is pre-paid.
It's just money Microsoft gives them so that THEY can sell music
Unfortunately for all parties on the other side of the fence the legal wording is to cover the piracy the device will be used for. They sold their rights to collect the fee.
Everyone who wants to send a buck to the RIAA by buying a Zune raise your hand!
If the player was $50 or usable, I'd be tempted to keep one on the shelf just as a RIAA get out of jail free card.
Letter arrives saying you were pirating music. I reply with a copy of the sales reciept.. I bought a license to pirate. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
That is why I bought a few spindles of Music CDR's. The royalty has been paid for the pirated music contained within. They do not come with a EULA showing any restriction on the pirated music recorded on the music CDR's. I use them for all my sneaker-net music library.
Pretty much every single one of these competitors is deficient on the usability front, and most of them have some head-slappingly bad UI howlers that make you wonder just what the hell they were thinking when they designed it,
My kid just uncovered a real howler with his RCA Lyra. He was at a friends house and decided to borrow some music that they had ripped. Unfortunately it was ripped in DRM WMA. He asked for help transcoding it to MP3. I gave it a shot and it was Winamp that let me know the files were DRM infested. Next came the task of deleting the non-functional files off the device.. No can do. The folder is locked and we do not have permission. WTF were they thinking. It won't play and it won't delete. We tried a Windows box and a Ubuntu box. The Ubuntu box showed the folder (by album name) as locked with no way to change the permissions or read only attributes. It looks like the deletion of the non-functional files need to be done on the computer that was used to put the file there. We will have to try that another day. If the computer that installed the files (via Windows file manager drag and drop) can't remove the folder and contents, then my kid will be real ticked at WMA format files as they are tying up some of his 1 gig of non-removable memory.
A player that prevents the owner from removing infected files has a serious design problem.
Does anybody know if the Creative players has this problem?
Then they want to raise prices forgetting why iTunes Store was successful in the first place. Or is it that they remember but they're just too greedy?
Playing the devils advocate, I think they want I tunes to not undercut the local merchant CD sales of upscale music. I wandered into Wal-Mart the other day and the CD Phantom of the Opera was over $30. Needless to say, it's still on the shelf if you want it. The labels are fearful that I will just buy the album from I tunes for a fixed price instead. They want to charge a premimum for what they think is premimum content regardless if it sells at Wal-Mart or I-tunes.
Hey and if you have to go that route just remember that your assets in 401 k)s and IRAs and other tax exempt retirement accounts can not be taken from you during Chapter 7 (http://detroitbankruptcylawyer.com/dosdonts.htm).
If I were drug through a very expensive legal trial and had nothing to lose, I would make it clear there was nothing to gain. I would start by quitting my job to work the defense full time. From there I would make it clear after it is all over, I would have lost everything and would then be a ward of the state. Do they want me as a burden or a taxpayer? Shaking me down past the end of the barrel would simply put me into hand to mouth existance with no incentive to produce just to have it taken for some settlement.
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Have you seen their stock price lately. After taking a massive hit yesterday of over 20% it's down 38% more right now. Opened at $2.00 and is now at $1.24 a 38% drop. Wow what a freefall.
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If you gather information like this on a politician or government employee, just the act of doing so is considered a threat.
Just as long as they realise that it's perfectly legal now to threaten them that way due to their decision. Maybe they will change their mind which is the whole point.
As a general comment, the arguably stupid part of the fixation on SUVs is that if everyone stopped driving them tomorrow and drove a Prius instead, it would have a negligible impact on oil consumption in the US. That fixation is fundamentally misplaced.
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I fail to see the logic. I fill my Prius for $20 and drive 400 miles. I hear people talk about $60 to fill the tank. Cutting consumption by almost half is arguably stupid how? Using half the oil consumption for personal transportation would have a negligible impact on oil consumption how? Please explain. Ya I know that trucks, buses, trains, etc would not be a factor, or could they?
I saw an article in the local paper where the local train switchyard just got a hybrid yard engine with impressive results. Japan has Hybrid buses. It's on the way folks.
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It's nearly as entertaining as watching them gets the kids out of the car to guide them into the parking space.
I second that one. I drive a Prius. My wife drives a Dodge Caravan. One fits into compact spaces, the other does not. One turns sharp, the other one almost hits the next row of cars backing out of a space trying to turn. I hate parking the van in small parking lots. It doesn't turn sharp enough. It requires a jog or two to line up with a space to get in or out. The Prius on the other hand can do a u-turn into the space on the the other side of the isle and pull right in.
Even if minivans get marginally better mileage than SUVs, they still both have very poor (passenger*miles)/gallon, because they are both usually driven with few passengers.
In many families, a minivan is required to get everyone to church on Sunday. My daily commute is now in a carpool and I drive a Prius. On days I'm home with the kids, the wife takes the Prius for shopping and errands due to the cost of filling the van.
The number of cars and the reduced number of miles driven is only part of the data. Show me the data where the van or SUV is left home more and the small car is now used for the commute and errands.
So if a private investigator uses pretexting to get my medical records, can I sue both the PI and the MPAA?
Think the other way..
Pretend to be a specialist physician and ask for the head of the MPAA's, city councel members, Govener's, etc., medical records because you need them to evaluate his condition. Post results online. They made it legal for the first part. Posting online might not be legal, but it makes a great protest move. Pass the information of the protest to the local press.
-Or that third parties seem to be more than willing to believe someone on the other side of the phone is whoever they claim to be.
Just to cut down on fraud attempts, we have a phone policy. Take the caller's information and phone number, take their business information including address city and state. Ask if the number given is the number in the yellow pages. If the number isn't in the yellow pages, ask why not. Tell them you will call back in 20 minutes at the number in the yellow pages. I the number isn't in the yellow pages (online), then inform them to get listed to be considered a valid business that may be there if I need service with the product later. This tends to give some call centers a bad case of stress and weeds out the fly by night operations.
I guess we need to tighten up the policy to give no information until the above information gathering is completed to deny those trying to just obtain information.
Can you see the fun in having the MPAA try to get me to call back under false pretenses.
Isn't it already a crime to pass yourself off as someone else? I thought it was fraud.
Sometimes if you pass yourself off as someone else. However sometimes you just don't want to be bugged for your actions. That is why bug me not websites and 10 minute e-mail accounts exist. I'm not passing myself off as somebody else, I'm viewing content and don't wish to fill out a consumer survey card with my DOB, address, name, earnings, marital status, etc just to read a newspaper online. It's not fraud and not intended to decieve. It's intended to keep the junk mail and phising attacks down. I know when I get an E-Bay phishing e-mail. All of them are. I don't have an E-Bay account. The same is true for most other phishing attempts. There is no way I'll leaving proper bank details with an online lender to have compromised later for targeted phishing attacks. If I want quotes for your rate, post the range online. Don't use the ad for stuffing your e-mail campaign. You get a 10 minute account with no fraud intended. It's a bug me not thing, not a fraud thing.
I've lost the ability to record FM on my Creative Zen with my last firmware update... ostensibly, though I can't confirm it because of industry pressure on Creative -- it was one of the features I bought it for.
If the feature is broken on the player, send it in to the manufacture to have it repaired. Post the results online in any review. Don't accept no quietly. Thank you for posting that tidbit here. I'll keep watching to see if it's a fluke with your unit or something worthy of a class action.
We're fucked.
Look on the bright side. They just made sure social engineering to obtain personal information on politicians perfectly legal. I think it's time to show them what legal advantages they have given their people. Anyone care to open a public database online in California with government officials personal information? Start with judges, city councel, and the like. Think of the children. Listing all the children's DOB, SSN, school, home address, IM username, ISP, IP address, and such should be a good wake up call to the error they just enabled.
Look closer.
I did. The page you didn't look at are the mini cruzer thumb drives. None of them have a write protect switch. You are correct that they do make a SD card which also has a USB port. However many retailers do not carry it. Therefore when searching retailers shelfs for a thumb drive with a write protect switch, I came up empty.
You have to look in the CF section for SD drives to find that beast, not the USB thumb drive section. So unless you knew what to look for and that it even exists, you are unlikely to find a USB thumb drive with a write protect switch on most retailers shelves. That has been the case when I last was looking and bought thumb drives. I got some Cruizer Mini drives without a switch. I use them for other transfers, but not bootable diagnostic drives.
Gnutella, eDonkey, and Bittorrent clients are available for OS X.
I remembered one of the defense items in an RIAA lawsuit is a Mac does not run the Kaza client. I wasn't sure about the others so I listed the bunch that Windows does run and Apple does not run them all.
Not many youngsters own new cars either, but I'd hardly say that spells doom for the car companies.
I found it madening that it was easier to get financing on a new car than on an older car.. I wanted an older car because I was in the service, may (will) relocate to another country within 2 years. Full coverage insurance was not an option. I talked to an insurance agent before I bought a car (good thing). Being single, male, under 25, out of your home of record state, all conspired to make insurance rates close to the car payments.
Since I had trouble with finding financing for a used car, and didn't want to take the depreciation hit on a new car, I was limited to buying an off the back of the lot junker for $600 cash. The first year savings in insurance paid for the car. A car loan mandates full coverage. I would have about broken even if I totaled a car every year. I came out ahead since I drove the car for 2 1/2 years and then sold it for almost my purchase price. I drove for the price of insurance, gas, oil, 1 set of tires, and a new muffler and about $5/month depreciation.
An under 25 male first time car buyer wants a paid for car, libality only insurance and no car payments. Who needs a car if you can't buy gas?
Linux is an option, but it would take me weeks to build and tweak a configuration to the point that I'm happy with it and feel it would serve her needs, and I don't have that kind of time (although Ubuntu out of the box is darned close).
My dad is on dial-up. I showed him Ubuntu even tho I am in the older demographic. My dad asked me to send him a Ubuntu CD and asked for the latest version. I sent him 6.06 and 6.10 and explained the 6.06 has long 3 year support. He installed it himself and had trouble with low resolution. He dropped by last week and after we swapped out the 1 meg graphics card, everyting is working fine. A long time ago I got him to use an Actiontec Dual PC modem so he and my mom could share a phone line, so there was no problems with modems. Printers and everyting else installed and worked fine. If you are out in the boonies and running Windows, I do recommend the Actiontec Dual PC modem. The e-mail exploits that use your modem to make expensive long distance calls for you simply don't work. The Dual PC Modem does not use AT commands and is pretty resistant from making any calls other than the ISP.
Couple that with the fact that that demographic has a hell of a lot of disposable cash, and Apple looks fricking brilliant.
I think the article is a mass jump to the wrong conclusion.
Case in point.. College age. What do they use a computer for? Does Apple do Kaza, bearshare, e-mule, and Bittorrent? What format are the popular games.
The college folks parrents.. Do they need the latest MPAA copyright and RIAA copyright violation? They don't go to concerts and buy movie tickets. They wait for it to come out on DVD and rent it for the family to watch together. Do they want to play the latest FPS or online game? They are looking for a machine that won't catch the latest Windows exploit. They do mail, taxes, and maybe a little solitare. Stability is the key.
This is not a case of Apple is more expensive as the primary reason. It may be a factor, but the primary reason is it's the applications stupid!
In fact, I've not seen a flash drive without write protect...
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You haven't looked at the local Best Buy, Fry's, Fred Meyer, Radio Shack, Walgreens, Sams Club, Costco,
Most USB memory sticks on the shelf at a local retailer do not have a protect switch.
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1064)-San
This whole page of Sansdisk products contains a bunch of thumbdrives with encryption software, but none has a write protect switch.
I think I've mainly seen them as Compact Flash, so you'd need a USB CF-card reader, but those are trivially cheap
i have a usb stick with write-protect switch
And how is the switch guarded so it doesn't accidently get flipped? If you glued the switch so it's in the read only mode, I may consider it OK. Otherwise it's suspect. The switch on the SD cards are generaly OK as they are recessed and require a fair amount of force to switch. I would not trust an unguarded switch that is easy to move.
I carry a bootable 1gb USB drive
I do not carry diagnostics on a USB flash drive. In an instant they can be silently corrupted without you knowing. They don't have a write protect. That alone makes them unusable to carry from client to client. You need idiot proof diagnostic media so an accidental reboot does not permit the worm on a system from hitching a ride with you to your next client. I only permit write protected media for all my diagnostics. A floppy with the write tab punched out or glued open, a single closed session CDR, or DVD is OK, but a writable USB drive is not OK to use by service people at my site.
The second I find myself paying a surcharge on a device I purchase to the RIAA I will make a point of not purchasing music for that device
Already done.. Music CDR and sneakernet. I do not use music CDR's to back up my music library. I use it to trade my music library. Piracy royalty is pre-paid.
There isn't a single unlicensed track anywhere on my iPod. Not even one unauthorized sample. If the music cartels start charging me for music that I haven't downloaded, ripped, or otherwise pirated, then I'm going to have to stop spending money at iTMS and my local funky CD shop, and treat that "royalty charge" as a blanket license to their entire library.
That is why I use Music CDR's for all my sneakernet music. The royalty tax for piracy is pre-paid.
It's just money Microsoft gives them so that THEY can sell music
Unfortunately for all parties on the other side of the fence the legal wording is to cover the piracy the device will be used for. They sold their rights to collect the fee.
Everyone who wants to send a buck to the RIAA by buying a Zune raise your hand!
If the player was $50 or usable, I'd be tempted to keep one on the shelf just as a RIAA get out of jail free card.
Letter arrives saying you were pirating music. I reply with a copy of the sales reciept.. I bought a license to pirate. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
That is why I bought a few spindles of Music CDR's. The royalty has been paid for the pirated music contained within. They do not come with a EULA showing any restriction on the pirated music recorded on the music CDR's. I use them for all my sneaker-net music library.
Pretty much every single one of these competitors is deficient on the usability front, and most of them have some head-slappingly bad UI howlers that make you wonder just what the hell they were thinking when they designed it,
My kid just uncovered a real howler with his RCA Lyra. He was at a friends house and decided to borrow some music that they had ripped. Unfortunately it was ripped in DRM WMA. He asked for help transcoding it to MP3. I gave it a shot and it was Winamp that let me know the files were DRM infested. Next came the task of deleting the non-functional files off the device.. No can do. The folder is locked and we do not have permission. WTF were they thinking. It won't play and it won't delete. We tried a Windows box and a Ubuntu box. The Ubuntu box showed the folder (by album name) as locked with no way to change the permissions or read only attributes. It looks like the deletion of the non-functional files need to be done on the computer that was used to put the file there. We will have to try that another day. If the computer that installed the files (via Windows file manager drag and drop) can't remove the folder and contents, then my kid will be real ticked at WMA format files as they are tying up some of his 1 gig of non-removable memory.
A player that prevents the owner from removing infected files has a serious design problem.
Does anybody know if the Creative players has this problem?
Then they want to raise prices forgetting why iTunes Store was successful in the first place. Or is it that they remember but they're just too greedy?
Playing the devils advocate, I think they want I tunes to not undercut the local merchant CD sales of upscale music. I wandered into Wal-Mart the other day and the CD Phantom of the Opera was over $30. Needless to say, it's still on the shelf if you want it. The labels are fearful that I will just buy the album from I tunes for a fixed price instead. They want to charge a premimum for what they think is premimum content regardless if it sells at Wal-Mart or I-tunes.
Hey and if you have to go that route just remember that your assets in 401 k)s and IRAs and other tax exempt retirement accounts can not be taken from you during Chapter 7 (http://detroitbankruptcylawyer.com/dosdonts.htm).
If I were drug through a very expensive legal trial and had nothing to lose, I would make it clear there was nothing to gain. I would start by quitting my job to work the defense full time. From there I would make it clear after it is all over, I would have lost everything and would then be a ward of the state. Do they want me as a burden or a taxpayer? Shaking me down past the end of the barrel would simply put me into hand to mouth existance with no incentive to produce just to have it taken for some settlement.
Let the press know these lawsuits destroy people.