Did they say anything when DVD-Jon made an announcement about extracting the unencrypted ACC stream?
I'm sure Steve Jobs did not lie to the recording industry about the security provided by iTunes, which is in reality nothing. You download a song, place it in a playlist, hit burn to get an audio CD, when the CD ejects push it back in, select the track, hit "Convert to MP3", and you have the song in unencrypted MP3 format. You never needed any software other than iTunes to accomplish this! This was explained on many Apple fan sites a day or two after iTunes was released...lots of people thought it was an oversight by Apple and would be plugged immediately. It wasn't...Apple was well aware, and you can still use this method today.
The encryption is there as a bone to the recording industry, just a sort of very low speed-bump. That the recording industry accepted this shows that Steve Jobs convinced them they could never win with iron-fisted tactics, the path to success was to make it easier for people to pay a nominal fee and own their music, that for them to steal it.
So yes, Apple will be silent on this, because they never intended to have airtight control over the music. Buying a tune in iTunes for a dollar is easier than the machinations to get this new key system to work...in fact it is easier than using P2P...that is why iTunes will continue to succeed in changing music delivery when all the others failed before them.
"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email.
Apple isn't in the music business. They don't care about the copy protection. That put in the minimal DRM they have in order to satisfy the recording industry, but anyone that wanted to, using only Apple software, can burn a normal audio CD with the track on it. Frankly, this is easier than the "crack" that this gentleman offers...instead of needing to manage a bunch of different keys, you just burn a CD.
iTunes is a way for Apple to sell more iPods, the publicity Jon generates helps Apple's cause!
Fine to say it is his fault, and have a good laugh at his expense, but it doesn't work out that way...
As the article says, most of that money is in new debt. He'll never be able to pay it back, so it will become the loss of the finance companies. They will raise the interest rates we have to pay in order to recoup that money.
And of course, since the guy will lose his home and has no money, he'll have to go on welfare to get his rent and food money. He won't be able to pay for his health care co-payments any longer, so he'll bail on those bills, making his doctors and hospitals raise their rates for paying customers and insurance companies.
Yes, he was stupid, his life will be crap, but we are the ones that have to pay for his stupidity!
For year, dentists went on an anti-tooth decay crusade...fluoride in the water, brush twice a day, floss daily, and so on. Their income plummeted, ask your dentist how he's doing these days!
I'm an Emergency Doctor...I never tell my patients to stop drinking, stop smoking, exercise, or get a checkup...I'm not going to mess with my income stream!
The altitude measurement is indeed worse than the other two dimenensions, because the satellites are all on a single side of the solution. The difference in errors is not that great though, only about 1.6 times. If the earth was transparent to radio signals, the accuracy would be the same in all three dimensions...but you still wouldn't percieve it that way.
There are more clues to one's altitude than to one's latitude and longitude...you see where sea level is, or see signs denoting altitude as you travel. These are in the same units your GPS displays, and you can compare them and notice the error. If you had access to the same sort of easily interpreted errors in the horizontal plane, you would notice the errors there much more than you do now.
If you look at http://www.ariss.net, you can see who has been able to bounce packets through the station. Also, to see the live data, type:
telnet first.aprs.net | grep NOCALL
(This won't show much unless there is a pass in progress over the US...
Steve K4HG
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I'm sure Steve Jobs did not lie to the recording industry about the security provided by iTunes, which is in reality nothing. You download a song, place it in a playlist, hit burn to get an audio CD, when the CD ejects push it back in, select the track, hit "Convert to MP3", and you have the song in unencrypted MP3 format. You never needed any software other than iTunes to accomplish this! This was explained on many Apple fan sites a day or two after iTunes was released...lots of people thought it was an oversight by Apple and would be plugged immediately. It wasn't...Apple was well aware, and you can still use this method today.
The encryption is there as a bone to the recording industry, just a sort of very low speed-bump. That the recording industry accepted this shows that Steve Jobs convinced them they could never win with iron-fisted tactics, the path to success was to make it easier for people to pay a nominal fee and own their music, that for them to steal it.
So yes, Apple will be silent on this, because they never intended to have airtight control over the music. Buying a tune in iTunes for a dollar is easier than the machinations to get this new key system to work...in fact it is easier than using P2P...that is why iTunes will continue to succeed in changing music delivery when all the others failed before them.
"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email.
Apple isn't in the music business. They don't care about the copy protection. That put in the minimal DRM they have in order to satisfy the recording industry, but anyone that wanted to, using only Apple software, can burn a normal audio CD with the track on it. Frankly, this is easier than the "crack" that this gentleman offers...instead of needing to manage a bunch of different keys, you just burn a CD.
iTunes is a way for Apple to sell more iPods, the publicity Jon generates helps Apple's cause!
As the article says, most of that money is in new debt. He'll never be able to pay it back, so it will become the loss of the finance companies. They will raise the interest rates we have to pay in order to recoup that money.
And of course, since the guy will lose his home and has no money, he'll have to go on welfare to get his rent and food money. He won't be able to pay for his health care co-payments any longer, so he'll bail on those bills, making his doctors and hospitals raise their rates for paying customers and insurance companies.
Yes, he was stupid, his life will be crap, but we are the ones that have to pay for his stupidity!
I'm an Emergency Doctor...I never tell my patients to stop drinking, stop smoking, exercise, or get a checkup...I'm not going to mess with my income stream!
I'd expect nothing less from IT workers....
There are more clues to one's altitude than to one's latitude and longitude...you see where sea level is, or see signs denoting altitude as you travel. These are in the same units your GPS displays, and you can compare them and notice the error. If you had access to the same sort of easily interpreted errors in the horizontal plane, you would notice the errors there much more than you do now.
Besides, we prefer the term Geek!
Steve K4HG
If you look at http://www.ariss.net, you can see who has been able to bounce packets through the station. Also, to see the live data, type: telnet first.aprs.net | grep NOCALL (This won't show much unless there is a pass in progress over the US... Steve K4HG