Problem is not vendor lock in from the Apple side, it's vendor lock out from a crappy business model ( leasing DRM infected music files to consumers ).
I am not interested in leasing music.
Apple should not be required to support every tom dick and harry's implementation of a DRM scheme. Napster choose their scheme, the consumer rejected it. Welcome to the market place, sometimes pigs get slaughtered.
Chris Gorog, CEO of Napster Inc. (NAPS ), which sells both subscriptions and downloads. "You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that."
Chris,
I know this is hard to wrap your head around. The iPod is a media player with a built in hard drive. There is no vendor lock in. I've been able to downlaod music from napster, kazaa, soundclick, and a variety of vendors. Amazingly, they all work fine. AIFF, WAV, MP3, ACC, all work fine on my iPod. Should your's behave differently, RTFM.
What the iPod doesn't do, is support every god damned DRM scheme on the planet that lets you and your corporate cronies "lease" your DRM infected music to iPod owners. Quite frankly I'm not interested in DRM laden crap from napster, real, or anyone else including iTMS. I bought my iPod to carry around the large collection of music I already have, not to populate it with new music that has been approved by some industry suit.
So, in conclusion, the iPod is a hard drive. I can get files of any type onto it with ease. The iPod is a media player. I can play a fair variety of widely available media types without problems. The problem is in the DRM schemes that lock content to specific devices.
The iPod did not lock me into anything, your DRM infected business plan locked me out of your customer base. I am not interested, and it has nothing to do with my iPod.
I have not, nor will I ever "lease" digital music for my device. If I am paying with real cash, I want real bits I can twiddle as I see fit.
In case you haven't noticed, iPods are nearly 500USD. This places them out of the range of the impulse buy, at least for most kids. I'm 30 years old, and can afford one. I also have a music collection I wanted to carry around with me. I did not have any desire, in any way, shape, or form, to purchase new music to populate my iPod. Truth be said, I haven't heard any new music from the industry that I would be willing to purchase.
So here it is in digestable chunks, that even the ??IA members can follow
1) People buy iPods to carry around music collections. People do not buy music collections to populate iPods. People without existing music collections have no need for a 500USD mp3 player with a large hard drive.
2)lack luster sales of music are entirely explainable by the industry having a lack of artistic talent on the store shelves. It doesn't matter if that store shelve is a database entry for the iTMS, ameoba, or wal*mart.
I will not be re-evaluating my commitment to avoid your products.
or in Dear John terms,
Dear SONY,
It's you, not me. There is nothing for you to evaluate here, so you can stop with the pathetic PR bullshit. It's sad to see you so desperate for my attention, when I have no interest in you. I ended this relationship because of your actions, you need to move on and get over it. I never want to see you again. No matter how you claim to have changed, and how much you have claimed to learn, I'm not interested. BDs--not interested. PS3--not interested. SONY batteries in the super market isle--not interested.
You walked into my house, removed the locks from my doors and windows, and had one hell of a crack party. You put my security at risk, and in this post 9-11 world, I believe you are a terrorist threat to freedom and privacy.
In case you haven't noticed, the male characters in games are an over exageration of expected masculine characteristics. The muscles are bigger, the hairlines aren't as receded, the player is expected to be something more than a normal man could ever be. The games themselves stereotype men as having to be able to complete the mission and solve the problem to be successful. In real life, failure is an acceptable result, and the games place unrealistic expectations on men.
Of course men are aware the game is an escape from reality, and don't tend to bitch about such things.
Reviews like these paints some women as jealous bitches who can't stand to play or even see a female video game character with qualities they don't find in themselves.
is "The Revolution Will not be Televised" being censored from the American public ?
I've been googling for a place to buy a copy, and it's not coming up for me as a possible purchase item. I can find sound tracks, reviews, and books, but no movies.
Was this never released for purchase ? I haven't seen it in a couple of years, when I caught it at a film festival in San Francisco. I was wanting to show it to some friends.
I'm refering to a documentary movie on Hugo Chevez/Venezuela, a CIA staged coup, and the revolt of the people caught serendipidously by some Irish film makers. It's seemingly not available for purchase on the intraweb from the US.
It is also is known as 'chavez inside the coup' according to google. Anyone ever seen this on DVD or VHS ?
Traditional radio is endangered, but not by new technology.
Radio, as a commercial success, was based around DJ's playing records. Good DJ's aquired listeners, and thus advertisers had an audience. Music was being heard, so people found out about bands, and bought music and attended concerts. I think this is roughly what made radio a success. Listeners hear new stuff, advertisers have an audience, and the record companies recieved increased awareness of their bands.
Radio has changed though, now the music itself is a paid advertisement, and between songs we are treated to paid advertisements, before a robot plays little pre-recorded snippet that replaced the DJ, and starts the next block of paid advertisements.
By removing the DJ, and replacing them with paid play lists, listeners are not being exposed to new music they like, but music the industry wants to sell. This is endangering radio more than any new technology.
Satellite radio is only really popular because of the changes in radio. Satellite provides the listeners with new music, whereas traditional radio is one big commercial advertisement for crap I don't need, paid for by companies with which I don't wish to do business.
I'd request costs covering the complete backup, reformatting, and recovery of your system, plus a full refund of the cost of the "Music" "CD".
Rootkits are serious business, and joe user shouldn't be expected to know how to remove one, nor should they be expected to rely on the company installing the rootkit for assistence in it's removal. Already Sony have advanced a plan based on insecure active-x technology, further placing their "customers" in harms way.
Even with their software, I'm not qualified to determine if the rootkit was actually removed, or merely had it's cloaking device changed and is active, or if it's been disabled and still resides on disk. Add this inspection cost to the list of requested $$$.
I think a $18 investment in a CD, could earn someone a decent pay out in a small claims court.
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I see Sony attached to all of them, and that's what guilty by association is all about. Boneheaded moves by a completely unrelated group under the Sony umbrella is all the justification I need to never trust a product with the name Sony attached to it.
I can't wait to see the DRM infecting the Playstation 3.
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People infected with a rootkit should be re-imbursed from Sony Music for the cost of the removal service, provided by whom ever the person chooses to use to remove the kit.
Rootkits are designed to avoid detection, and only an idiot would trust a company destributing rootkits to provide them with software to remove the rootkit. For all I know, they just changed the cloaking mechanism, and left the machine vulnerable to attacks, still running the rootkit.
Shouldn't Sony pay the cost of having machines backed up, wiping and formating of the drives, re-install of the OS, re-install of the software, re-configure the software, and reimbursement for the time and productivity lost in the process.
Right now the whole thing is being treated like a childish goof up and a big oops. Sony has installed rootkits, on personal machines and corporate equipment, and they should be paying for the equipment to be restored as deemed necessary by the owner. Simply giving a link to a download that claims to remove the rootkit is entirely insufficient.
If the rumours are true, there will be no second hand sales of ps3 games, no playing your games at your friends home, no rentals from the video store, and consumers will be blessed with the pleasure of renewing of content licenses after a fixed number of hours of game play.
It might not hurt to use a page from turd blossom's handbook. Say, start an outrageous rumor on the web, and let SONY present the other side of the debate.
I heard Sony might ship the PS3 infected with DRM that will only allow the games to be played a set number of times before the license expires. I for one will not be upgrading my PS2 to the PS3, the risk is too great.
I was going to buy a PlayStation 3, but I'm afraid the games will come infected with DRM like the sony music discs. I can't run the risk of a company telling me I can only play the games I bought on the console in my house a set number of times before the disc expires. Even worse would be if the PS3 left my home stereo system infected with DRM.
So, I guess I better start getting excited about the new nintendo console.
Hidden in the measure was a dirty secret about funneling money through "online free speach" sites to political parties and candidates.
It's not knocked down because of the freedom of expression, it was voted down because it's a circumvention of campaign finance restrictions, essentially allowing unlimited donations. Unlimited money spent on politics is almost always the opposite of freedom.
Can you have a playlist of all songs in your library, over 2 minutes and under 5 minutes, by an artist with a name containing a 'Q', rated over four stars, in the dance genre or the hip hop genre, that haven't been played in over two weeks and have been played more than 27 times, with a bitrate over 96kHz, added to the library after June of 2004 ?
This is what I think makes iTunes + iPod the best, being able to manage a large music collection in very powerful ways, with ease.
Those bitches sold me something as a lock, having only a single key to open it, and a guarantee against pick based attacks. In reality I bought a heavy ass paper weight. ANY person with a bic pen could open it. I bitched about it in my blog, after they refused to replace the lock because I lacked a receipt. Many others did the same thing.
They still wouldn't exchange it.
I bitched on my blog about how it's very unlikely I stole the lock, and waited for the owner to mug him for the key. Many others did the same thing.
Eventually they opened up exchanges to anyone with a lock and a key to open it.
Blogs give people the power to alter the pereption of a company, affect their bottom line, and coerce them into responsible actions.
I still won't buy kryptonite products because of their complete failure to immediately and resposibly stand behind their products. It took so long for Kryptonite to stand up and replace the locks, I was forced to buy from another company to product my investment in my bike. By the time they actually implemented the exchange program, it was pointless because they fucked over everyone who had their their locks, and forced everyone to buy new locks from other manufacturers out of necessity.
Microsoft will bias the search results in favor of their advertisers. Google will present results of the search, plus a listing of relevant advertisers.
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Problem is not vendor lock in from the Apple side, it's vendor lock out from a crappy business model ( leasing DRM infected music files to consumers ).
I am not interested in leasing music.
Apple should not be required to support every tom dick and harry's implementation of a DRM scheme. Napster choose their scheme, the consumer rejected it. Welcome to the market place, sometimes pigs get slaughtered.
Chris Gorog, CEO of Napster Inc. (NAPS ), which sells both subscriptions and downloads. "You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that."
Chris,
I know this is hard to wrap your head around. The iPod is a media player with a built in hard drive. There is no vendor lock in. I've been able to downlaod music from napster, kazaa, soundclick, and a variety of vendors. Amazingly, they all work fine. AIFF, WAV, MP3, ACC, all work fine on my iPod. Should your's behave differently, RTFM.
What the iPod doesn't do, is support every god damned DRM scheme on the planet that lets you and your corporate cronies "lease" your DRM infected music to iPod owners. Quite frankly I'm not interested in DRM laden crap from napster, real, or anyone else including iTMS. I bought my iPod to carry around the large collection of music I already have, not to populate it with new music that has been approved by some industry suit.
So, in conclusion, the iPod is a hard drive. I can get files of any type onto it with ease. The iPod is a media player. I can play a fair variety of widely available media types without problems. The problem is in the DRM schemes that lock content to specific devices.
The iPod did not lock me into anything, your DRM infected business plan locked me out of your customer base. I am not interested, and it has nothing to do with my iPod.
I have not, nor will I ever "lease" digital music for my device. If I am paying with real cash, I want real bits I can twiddle as I see fit.
Dear Industry,
In case you haven't noticed, iPods are nearly 500USD. This places them out of the range of the impulse buy, at least for most kids. I'm 30 years old, and can afford one. I also have a music collection I wanted to carry around with me. I did not have any desire, in any way, shape, or form, to purchase new music to populate my iPod. Truth be said, I haven't heard any new music from the industry that I would be willing to purchase.
So here it is in digestable chunks, that even the ??IA members can follow
1) People buy iPods to carry around music collections. People do not buy music collections to populate iPods. People without existing music collections have no need for a 500USD mp3 player with a large hard drive.
2)lack luster sales of music are entirely explainable by the industry having a lack of artistic talent on the store shelves. It doesn't matter if that store shelve is a database entry for the iTMS, ameoba, or wal*mart.
You can re-evaluate all you want.
I will not be re-evaluating my commitment to avoid your products.
or in Dear John terms,
Dear SONY,
It's you, not me. There is nothing for you to evaluate here, so you can stop with the pathetic PR bullshit.
It's sad to see you so desperate for my attention, when I have no interest in you.
I ended this relationship because of your actions, you need to move on and get over it.
I never want to see you again.
No matter how you claim to have changed, and how much you have claimed to learn, I'm not interested.
BDs--not interested. PS3--not interested. SONY batteries in the super market isle--not interested.
You walked into my house, removed the locks from my doors and windows, and had one hell of a crack party.
You put my security at risk, and in this post 9-11 world, I believe you are a terrorist threat to freedom and privacy.
Yours Truly,
In case you haven't noticed, the male characters in games are an over exageration of expected masculine characteristics. The muscles are bigger, the hairlines aren't as receded, the player is expected to be something more than a normal man could ever be. The games themselves stereotype men as having to be able to complete the mission and solve the problem to be successful. In real life, failure is an acceptable result, and the games place unrealistic expectations on men.
Of course men are aware the game is an escape from reality, and don't tend to bitch about such things.
Reviews like these paints some women as jealous bitches who can't stand to play or even see a female video game character with qualities they don't find in themselves.
is "The Revolution Will not be Televised" being censored from the American public ?
I've been googling for a place to buy a copy, and it's not coming up for me as a possible purchase item. I can find sound tracks, reviews, and books, but no movies.
Was this never released for purchase ? I haven't seen it in a couple of years, when I caught it at a film festival in San Francisco. I was wanting to show it to some friends.
I'm refering to a documentary movie on Hugo Chevez/Venezuela, a CIA staged coup, and the revolt of the people caught serendipidously by some Irish film makers. It's seemingly not available for purchase on the intraweb from the US.
It is also is known as 'chavez inside the coup' according to google. Anyone ever seen this on DVD or VHS ?
Thanks.
Traditional radio is endangered, but not by new technology.
Radio, as a commercial success, was based around DJ's playing records. Good DJ's aquired listeners, and thus advertisers had an audience. Music was being heard, so people found out about bands, and bought music and attended concerts. I think this is roughly what made radio a success. Listeners hear new stuff, advertisers have an audience, and the record companies recieved increased awareness of their bands.
Radio has changed though, now the music itself is a paid advertisement, and between songs we are treated to paid advertisements, before a robot plays little pre-recorded snippet that replaced the DJ, and starts the next block of paid advertisements.
By removing the DJ, and replacing them with paid play lists, listeners are not being exposed to new music they like, but music the industry wants to sell. This is endangering radio more than any new technology.
Satellite radio is only really popular because of the changes in radio. Satellite provides the listeners with new music, whereas traditional radio is one big commercial advertisement for crap I don't need, paid for by companies with which I don't wish to do business.
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How well do their portable recievers work indoors ?
Can I be in the basement of a building and still get a signal ?
AC is insightful.
$500 or $SMALL_CLAIMS_COURT_MAXIMUM.
I'd request costs covering the complete backup, reformatting, and recovery of your system, plus a full refund of the cost of the "Music" "CD".
Rootkits are serious business, and joe user shouldn't be expected to know how to remove one, nor should they be expected to rely on the company installing the rootkit for assistence in it's removal. Already Sony have advanced a plan based on insecure active-x technology, further placing their "customers" in harms way.
Even with their software, I'm not qualified to determine if the rootkit was actually removed, or merely had it's cloaking device changed and is active, or if it's been disabled and still resides on disk. Add this inspection cost to the list of requested $$$.
I think a $18 investment in a CD, could earn someone a decent pay out in a small claims court.
I see Sony attached to all of them, and that's what guilty by association is all about. Boneheaded moves by a completely unrelated group under the Sony umbrella is all the justification I need to never trust a product with the name Sony attached to it.
I can't wait to see the DRM infecting the Playstation 3.
People infected with a rootkit should be re-imbursed from Sony Music for the cost of the removal service, provided by whom ever the person chooses to use to remove the kit.
Rootkits are designed to avoid detection, and only an idiot would trust a company destributing rootkits to provide them with software to remove the rootkit. For all I know, they just changed the cloaking mechanism, and left the machine vulnerable to attacks, still running the rootkit.
Shouldn't Sony pay the cost of having machines backed up, wiping and formating of the drives, re-install of the OS, re-install of the software, re-configure the software, and reimbursement for the time and productivity lost in the process.
Right now the whole thing is being treated like a childish goof up and a big oops. Sony has installed rootkits, on personal machines and corporate equipment, and they should be paying for the equipment to be restored as deemed necessary by the owner. Simply giving a link to a download that claims to remove the rootkit is entirely insufficient.
Don't forget the stories online about the Playstation 3 being infected with DRM worse than what they tried with their music.
Not just Sony music, Sony playstation has equally rediculous terms of use, if the internet rumour mill can be believed.
This Article, and others, suggest the playstation3 will be released infected with DRM as bad as the music media.
If the rumours are true, there will be no second hand sales of ps3 games, no playing your games at your friends home, no rentals from the video store, and consumers will be blessed with the pleasure of renewing of content licenses after a fixed number of hours of game play.
This article presents Sony's position nicely.
It might not hurt to use a page from turd blossom's handbook. Say, start an outrageous rumor on the web, and let SONY present the other side of the debate.
I heard Sony might ship the PS3 infected with DRM that will only allow the games to be played a set number of times before the license expires. I for one will not be upgrading my PS2 to the PS3, the risk is too great.
I was going to buy a PlayStation 3, but I'm afraid the games will come infected with DRM like the sony music discs. I can't run the risk of a company telling me I can only play the games I bought on the console in my house a set number of times before the disc expires. Even worse would be if the PS3 left my home stereo system infected with DRM.
So, I guess I better start getting excited about the new nintendo console.
If I want to run the risk of getting my machine rooted from music files, I won't pay for the priviledge, I will download them for free.
Don't buy music Infected with DRM.
Hidden in the measure was a dirty secret about funneling money through "online free speach" sites to political parties and candidates.
It's not knocked down because of the freedom of expression, it was voted down because it's a circumvention of campaign finance restrictions, essentially allowing unlimited donations. Unlimited money spent on politics is almost always the opposite of freedom.
Don't call me Jesus.
Can you have a playlist of all songs in your library, over 2 minutes and under 5 minutes, by an artist with a name containing a 'Q', rated over four stars, in the dance genre or the hip hop genre, that haven't been played in over two weeks and have been played more than 27 times, with a bitrate over 96kHz, added to the library after June of 2004 ?
This is what I think makes iTunes + iPod the best, being able to manage a large music collection in very powerful ways, with ease.
Those bitches sold me something as a lock, having only a single key to open it, and a guarantee against pick based attacks. In reality I bought a heavy ass paper weight. ANY person with a bic pen could open it. I bitched about it in my blog, after they refused to replace the lock because I lacked a receipt. Many others did the same thing.
They still wouldn't exchange it.
I bitched on my blog about how it's very unlikely I stole the lock, and waited for the owner to mug him for the key. Many others did the same thing.
Eventually they opened up exchanges to anyone with a lock and a key to open it.
Blogs give people the power to alter the pereption of a company, affect their bottom line, and coerce them into responsible actions.
I still won't buy kryptonite products because of their complete failure to immediately and resposibly stand behind their products. It took so long for Kryptonite to stand up and replace the locks, I was forced to buy from another company to product my investment in my bike. By the time they actually implemented the exchange program, it was pointless because they fucked over everyone who had their their locks, and forced everyone to buy new locks from other manufacturers out of necessity.
Microsoft will bias the search results in favor of their advertisers.
Google will present results of the search, plus a listing of relevant advertisers.
Bingo.
I don't carry work around with me, nor would I want to carry work around with me. I don't sign contracts which enslave me to being reachable 24/7.
I carry music, because I enjoy it. I use an iPod, because it makes 40GB of music easy to manage.