When the iPod Photo was announced during Apple's October 2004 special music event, Steve Jobs was adamant that there was not going to be a video iPod. "Nobody has the content. And even if they did, the screens are much too small to watch video anyway. So we think these products are wrong."
Jon, and the people in the past who have done similar things, have made iTunes Music Store music less usable by prompting Apple to implement further restrictions on its music that were not present, nor apparently planned, before. These tend to be restrictions that directly affect me, which is what my post was about. I'm not speaking for everyone obviously, just myself and my own uses of the music that I've purchased.
I used to have a burning hatred of all DRM, solely because I had not ever used rights-restricted media that did not manage to prevent me from using it in the way that I wanted. iTMS DRM was different, at first - I found myself able to use the music as I pleased and never ran up against a DRM wall. I am beginning to hate Apple's method of DRM more and more. I'm certain that quite a lot of Apple's further restrictions would have inevitably been added in the future anyway, DVD Jon or not, but Jon's actions are accelerating this unnecessarily.
So how do I use my iTMS music? I've no need to use my music on any portable devices. I've no need to burn any CDs. I listen to my music on my computer and stream that music throughout my house and to all the machines at work. I use the music in iMovie presentations and send them to friends. I am now unable to stream my music to work due to someone thinking it'd be a great idea to create a program to exploit this functionality and download music from someone else's iTunes library over the Internet, instead of just being happy with streaming it like they were being allowed to do. Say bye bye to that functionality. Instead of somehow loosening Apple's DRM and making it better for everyone, they effectively removed the right of anyone to stream music beyond a local network. I'm consistently amazed that people continually break or circumvent Apple's DRM (or at least encourage others to do so) and then get angry when Apple gets rid of those rights and that functionality all together.
I'm going to be purchasing significantly less music from the iTunes Music Store because I can no longer enjoy the music in the ways that I previous was able. I don't blame people like Jon completely (Apple is largely at fault as well) but they are a very visible part of the problem.
And an unrelated note...
I don't know why I got +5 Insightful, my post was quite intentionally kneejerky. Heh, frankly I made that post (my first post) as an experiment to see how the comment and moderation system worked. Rather strange...
This is a good point. There already exists a method for quickly and easily removing the copy protection from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store: Hymn, or more recently, jHymn. There's absolutely no reason to want or need to avoid having copy protection added in the first place.
As far as I know, the Hymn project has never spurred Apple to tighten their DRM, but Jon frequently and consistently manages this.
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When the iPod Photo was announced during Apple's October 2004 special music event, Steve Jobs was adamant that there was not going to be a video iPod. "Nobody has the content. And even if they did, the screens are much too small to watch video anyway. So we think these products are wrong."
Jon, and the people in the past who have done similar things, have made iTunes Music Store music less usable by prompting Apple to implement further restrictions on its music that were not present, nor apparently planned, before. These tend to be restrictions that directly affect me, which is what my post was about. I'm not speaking for everyone obviously, just myself and my own uses of the music that I've purchased.
I used to have a burning hatred of all DRM, solely because I had not ever used rights-restricted media that did not manage to prevent me from using it in the way that I wanted. iTMS DRM was different, at first - I found myself able to use the music as I pleased and never ran up against a DRM wall. I am beginning to hate Apple's method of DRM more and more. I'm certain that quite a lot of Apple's further restrictions would have inevitably been added in the future anyway, DVD Jon or not, but Jon's actions are accelerating this unnecessarily.
So how do I use my iTMS music? I've no need to use my music on any portable devices. I've no need to burn any CDs. I listen to my music on my computer and stream that music throughout my house and to all the machines at work. I use the music in iMovie presentations and send them to friends. I am now unable to stream my music to work due to someone thinking it'd be a great idea to create a program to exploit this functionality and download music from someone else's iTunes library over the Internet, instead of just being happy with streaming it like they were being allowed to do. Say bye bye to that functionality. Instead of somehow loosening Apple's DRM and making it better for everyone, they effectively removed the right of anyone to stream music beyond a local network. I'm consistently amazed that people continually break or circumvent Apple's DRM (or at least encourage others to do so) and then get angry when Apple gets rid of those rights and that functionality all together.
I'm going to be purchasing significantly less music from the iTunes Music Store because I can no longer enjoy the music in the ways that I previous was able. I don't blame people like Jon completely (Apple is largely at fault as well) but they are a very visible part of the problem.
And an unrelated note...
I don't know why I got +5 Insightful, my post was quite intentionally kneejerky. Heh, frankly I made that post (my first post) as an experiment to see how the comment and moderation system worked. Rather strange...
This is a good point. There already exists a method for quickly and easily removing the copy protection from songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store: Hymn, or more recently, jHymn. There's absolutely no reason to want or need to avoid having copy protection added in the first place. As far as I know, the Hymn project has never spurred Apple to tighten their DRM, but Jon frequently and consistently manages this.
This is awesome, Jon is single handedly causing a pretty reasonable DRM scheme to rapidly degrade into something nearly unusable. Thanks man!