there are right and "wrong" reasons to copy a cd. it's ok to copy a cd onto your ipod. when you ask sony how, they'll tell you how. you can trust that they aren't about to sue you for copying a cd to your ipod.
of course, they can still sue you if they find out you've copied it and given it to someone else.
really, nothing has changed except now you're more easily prosecuted... kind of a wise move by sony.
What about the hardware comparison that will surely not favour apple.
e.g
3.2ghz Pentium 4 1GB ram 200GB HD PC $600
or
3.2ghz Pentium 4 512MB ram 120GB HD "Apple Mac" $999
probably the reason you wont see prices like this. apple will be forced to lower their prices. sounds good to me.
i think the big cause of this has been lost to the slashdotters.
yes, the cpu will change. why move away from powerpc? it isn't fast enough.
why switch to intel? well, didn't intel just adopt a plan to integrate drm into the hardware? isn't everyone betting on apple's move towards an itunes for movies? doesn't apple need hollywood to jump onboard before it can license out movies? isn't hollywood concerned about their movies being pirated?
the normal individual does not think powerpc when they hear the word apple. they think ipod! jobs' business decisions are based on where apple is booming, and that's the ipod and all the simplistic mindset attached to it.
with intel and its drm, he's turning his computers into fancy ipods. the widescreen imacs already look like them, and the mini is designed to sit in an entertainment system. though the move away from powerpc is necessary to growth, it may very well have been intels willingness to integrate drm (jobs' natural next step) that cemented the choice.
when you want something that costs money, the person who makes it will want to make sure you pay for it. the bottom line is, hollywood won't let their movies our until they're guaranteed protection, and that means drm. jobs' is offering them protection from the ground up, just as he did with the ipod.
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there are right and "wrong" reasons to copy a cd. it's ok to copy a cd onto your ipod. when you ask sony how, they'll tell you how. you can trust that they aren't about to sue you for copying a cd to your ipod.
of course, they can still sue you if they find out you've copied it and given it to someone else.
really, nothing has changed except now you're more easily prosecuted... kind of a wise move by sony.
What about the hardware comparison that will surely not favour apple. e.g 3.2ghz Pentium 4 1GB ram 200GB HD PC $600 or 3.2ghz Pentium 4 512MB ram 120GB HD "Apple Mac" $999 probably the reason you wont see prices like this. apple will be forced to lower their prices. sounds good to me.
i think the big cause of this has been lost to the slashdotters.
yes, the cpu will change. why move away from powerpc? it isn't fast enough.
why switch to intel? well, didn't intel just adopt a plan to integrate drm into the hardware? isn't everyone betting on apple's move towards an itunes for movies? doesn't apple need hollywood to jump onboard before it can license out movies? isn't hollywood concerned about their movies being pirated?
the normal individual does not think powerpc when they hear the word apple. they think ipod! jobs' business decisions are based on where apple is booming, and that's the ipod and all the simplistic mindset attached to it.
with intel and its drm, he's turning his computers into fancy ipods. the widescreen imacs already look like them, and the mini is designed to sit in an entertainment system. though the move away from powerpc is necessary to growth, it may very well have been intels willingness to integrate drm (jobs' natural next step) that cemented the choice.
when you want something that costs money, the person who makes it will want to make sure you pay for it. the bottom line is, hollywood won't let their movies our until they're guaranteed protection, and that means drm. jobs' is offering them protection from the ground up, just as he did with the ipod.
apple users will become DRM's biggest apologists.