If nothing can play the Apple DRM'd AAC file except for those that licence Fairplay it might as well be a new file format. Just because it's based on a documented standard doesn't make it any better. This is a classic "embrace and extend" strategy that we jump all over Microsoft for.
What's worse in this case is that Apple has thus far been uncooperative in licencing the Fairplay format.
A very similar story appeared on the front page of the in the Halifax Herald today, May 31, 2001.(http://www.halifaxherald.com):
"Grade 2 student suspended for pretending food was a pistol.
East Sable River - Little Billy Barnes has been busted.
The eight-year-old Grade 2 student at tiny Ragged Island Consolidated School near Lockeport was suspended for a day last week after he pointed a breaded chicken finger at a classmate and said 'bang.'... "
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What's worse in this case is that Apple has thus far been uncooperative in licencing the Fairplay format.
A very similar story appeared on the front page of the in the Halifax Herald today, May 31, 2001.(http://www.halifaxherald.com):
"Grade 2 student suspended for pretending food was a pistol.
East Sable River - Little Billy Barnes has been busted.
The eight-year-old Grade 2 student at tiny Ragged Island Consolidated School near Lockeport was suspended for a day last week after he pointed a breaded chicken finger at a classmate and said 'bang.'... "