Boot Camp is not virtualization; it's a set of tools (firmware patch, driver CD creator, NTFS formatter with nondestructive partitioning) that allow Apple hardware to boot Vista directly. You won't violate the cheap Vista license if you use it under Boot Camp. You only need the expensive version for Parallels, which lets you run an OS in a window as an OS X app (real virtualization).
Even better- only a subset of songs that can be bought from the Zune Store can be shared over wireless; many have it disabled by the DRM. But there is no indication of whether this is the case until you attempt to copy the song and fail.
Quite the contrary- Apple has long since earned a somewhat reliable reputation for screwing up 1.0 products. Given that, it does look (like every other post here has said) that the problem is with the content, not the device. Now that Apple has a 720P playback platform, the only thing holding back HD content on the store has to be contract negotiations.
The ITMS is large enough that even a relatively small percentage of their sales changing from DRMed to non-DRMed AACs may be enough to outweigh the rest of the non-DRM market selling MP3s.
The only answer to this is sales figures. We'll get to see whether people really demand quality and lack of DRM (the non-DRM version takes off and sales of the DRM version flatline) or whether the store was all about convenience and marketing the whole time (non-DRM sales equal or lag DRM sales, DRM sales don't significantly decline).
Also it's not a subsidy unless the target would lose money otherwise. Even when 100% DRMed the store runs at a small profit, much to Apple's surprise.
But with electronics, you can have your cake and eat it too. A smartphone is a platform that can run any sort of software, including programs not yet written.
Now if only Apple hadn't made it a closed platform...
This will not work because iTunes will stream the compressed content to the AppleTV and the compression is performed on that end. Or did you think they were sending uncompressed 720P video over 802.11g?
iTunes is streaming the compressed content to the AppleTV, which performs the decompression itself. So it needs to support the codec used to encode what you're trying to play, and wrapping it in a reference movie and changing the software on the computer won't help.
Less you forget, when facing contract negotiations for extending FairPlay to Windows, and renewing contracts with the majors, Apple had to limit 'Rendezvous', add reductions to the number of times a play list could be burned, and make other concessions to the Major Labels
The streaming limit was added because people were using iTunes as a P2P program and the playlist reduction happened at the same time as an increase in the number of simultaneously authorized computers, so neither of these represents the labels forcing things on Apple.
The central progression is linear, but pretty much all of the optional quests are independent of both each other and the main branch (not counting earning required items).
The reason people ignore DRM-free music while simultaneously complaining about DRMed music from EMI isn't that they're ignorant or hypocrites- it's that they want the music EMI is selling. Maybe you're after some classic rock act that signed up to a label before not doing so was even an option. Maybe you actually like music that shows up on the pop charts. You can't just say "listen to this instead" and expect an identical experience. Music isn't a commodity that one can simple switch to a different supplier of on a whim; each band is unique and there's personal taste involved. There are dozens of Led Zeppelin cover bands and hundreds of bands with a similar sound, but there's only one Zep and only one place to legally get it from.
The natural successor to MP3 is AAC. And before someone starts complaining about Apple, AAC is just as much of an open standard as MP3 is, and does not include any DRM.
He also managed to argue the recording industry down to the most minimal DRM that had yet been introduced for the ITMS, up to and including a built-in escape hatch (burn the CD).
There's one important fact that the free culture argument tends to neglect. Sure, a copy of a movie costs effectively zero. But the original has a cost that's decidedly nonzero. Information doesn't grow on trees, it takes energy to set it in a meaningful pattern that enables all those free copies.
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Are you kidding? They love this. You still need to buy Windows to run it on your liberated multiplatform machine.
If they're really scared of anything, it's reverse engineering projects like WINE and Mono.
Boot Camp is not virtualization; it's a set of tools (firmware patch, driver CD creator, NTFS formatter with nondestructive partitioning) that allow Apple hardware to boot Vista directly. You won't violate the cheap Vista license if you use it under Boot Camp. You only need the expensive version for Parallels, which lets you run an OS in a window as an OS X app (real virtualization).
Even better- only a subset of songs that can be bought from the Zune Store can be shared over wireless; many have it disabled by the DRM. But there is no indication of whether this is the case until you attempt to copy the song and fail.
It's not a demo, it's a [b]beta[/b]. A closed beta, too- if you're not already signed up for it it's too late.
I mean that you have to own the DVDs in question, not just rent them from Netflix and keep copies.
Leaving Apple with just the tiny advantage of being entirely legal.
Quite the contrary- Apple has long since earned a somewhat reliable reputation for screwing up 1.0 products. Given that, it does look (like every other post here has said) that the problem is with the content, not the device. Now that Apple has a 720P playback platform, the only thing holding back HD content on the store has to be contract negotiations.
The ITMS is large enough that even a relatively small percentage of their sales changing from DRMed to non-DRMed AACs may be enough to outweigh the rest of the non-DRM market selling MP3s.
The only answer to this is sales figures. We'll get to see whether people really demand quality and lack of DRM (the non-DRM version takes off and sales of the DRM version flatline) or whether the store was all about convenience and marketing the whole time (non-DRM sales equal or lag DRM sales, DRM sales don't significantly decline).
Also it's not a subsidy unless the target would lose money otherwise. Even when 100% DRMed the store runs at a small profit, much to Apple's surprise.
"Hi, I have an innovative new method for selling music in an online store, and I want to license your content." "Get lost."
"Hi, I have an innovative new method for selling DRMed music in an online store, and I want to license your content." "OK."
Whether you believe Jobs or not, the ITMS only took off because it has RIAA content and it only has RIAA content because it has DRM.
Guess the machines never thought we'd get that far away from the city. At least it's not a skybox.
But with electronics, you can have your cake and eat it too. A smartphone is a platform that can run any sort of software, including programs not yet written.
Now if only Apple hadn't made it a closed platform...
If you don't want to be tracked don't carry a device that periodically emits a radio signal.
This will not work because iTunes will stream the compressed content to the AppleTV and the compression is performed on that end. Or did you think they were sending uncompressed 720P video over 802.11g?
iTunes is streaming the compressed content to the AppleTV, which performs the decompression itself. So it needs to support the codec used to encode what you're trying to play, and wrapping it in a reference movie and changing the software on the computer won't help.
Groundhog Day: The Game was made about 8 years ago. It was called Majora's Mask.
When will people stop saying this? If I take your happiness, you still have it. That's why it's not theft, it's happiness infringement.
Less you forget, when facing contract negotiations for extending FairPlay to Windows, and renewing contracts with the majors, Apple had to limit 'Rendezvous', add reductions to the number of times a play list could be burned, and make other concessions to the Major Labels
The streaming limit was added because people were using iTunes as a P2P program and the playlist reduction happened at the same time as an increase in the number of simultaneously authorized computers, so neither of these represents the labels forcing things on Apple.
The central progression is linear, but pretty much all of the optional quests are independent of both each other and the main branch (not counting earning required items).
"Wikipedia is built on the idea of trusting other people and people being honest"
This is the biggest fundamental flaw in the entire project.
Sony will be constantly upgrading the software emulation
it's a hell of a lot better than the XBox 360's backwards compatibility
Actually, it's exactly identical to the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility.
The reason people ignore DRM-free music while simultaneously complaining about DRMed music from EMI isn't that they're ignorant or hypocrites- it's that they want the music EMI is selling. Maybe you're after some classic rock act that signed up to a label before not doing so was even an option. Maybe you actually like music that shows up on the pop charts. You can't just say "listen to this instead" and expect an identical experience. Music isn't a commodity that one can simple switch to a different supplier of on a whim; each band is unique and there's personal taste involved. There are dozens of Led Zeppelin cover bands and hundreds of bands with a similar sound, but there's only one Zep and only one place to legally get it from.
The natural successor to MP3 is AAC. And before someone starts complaining about Apple, AAC is just as much of an open standard as MP3 is, and does not include any DRM.
He also managed to argue the recording industry down to the most minimal DRM that had yet been introduced for the ITMS, up to and including a built-in escape hatch (burn the CD).
There's one important fact that the free culture argument tends to neglect. Sure, a copy of a movie costs effectively zero. But the original has a cost that's decidedly nonzero. Information doesn't grow on trees, it takes energy to set it in a meaningful pattern that enables all those free copies.