Comments on: PlayFair revival project

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:07:30 +0000

whats i the best Business model for Music , given the realities of the market ?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:34:28 +0000

I recently saw the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I find it intriguing that people who lie, steal, and cheat to get to top are the most indignant, when they perceive others to do the same.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:33:10 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:10:21 +0000

Indian law specifically permits this kind of thing:

“(a)the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available; ”

Moreover, it even deals with baseless threats such as Apple’s:

“Section 60. Remedy in the case of groundless threat of legal proceedings.- Where any person claiming to be the owner of copyright in any work, by circulars, advertisements or otherwise, threatens any other person with any legal proceedings or liability in respect of an alleged infringement of the copyright, any person aggrieved thereby may, notwithstanding anything contained in section 34 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), institute a declaratory suit that the alleged infringement of any legal rights of the person making such threats and may in any such suit”
(a) obtain an injunction against the continuance of such threats; and
(b) recover such damages, if any, as he has sustained by reason of such threats.

So PlayFair may even be able to take action against Apple for this!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:07:33 +0000

“Jobs has revolutionized the music industry by getting the iTunes Music Store out there and allowing people to download music legally”? Hardly. Jobs was (and record companies were) simply lucky that Aple had such a small market share that they dared let it play. At east a dozen years before Jobs’ grand idea, major music retailers (like Tower) were begging for permission to do just what Jobs did except better (with multi-format, multi-player support) but the record companies told them to take a hike. The record companies wanted to own the Internet, and knew they could not compete with experienced retailers who would aggregate music from the majors and independents alike and whose brands consumers already knew. By the time Jobs came along, the majors had already experienced failure so many times they were a little more willing to listen to reason, but Jobs got it only because they knew they could contain it to the Apple computer market if they did not like the results.

Aire Libre

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:23:59 +0000

It reallty depends on what you think Apple is trying to do here. Jobs has revolutionized the music industry by getting the iTunes Music Store out there and allowing people to download music legally. Makes people who get it happy, makes the lawyers happy, makes the roced companies happy. How has he done this ? By implementing FairPlay. Sure, Jobs knows that it’ll be broken and music should be free. The guy is hardly on the side of the music companies who are trying to already jack up the prices to crush his store. But, nevertheless, he needs to at least pursue a FairPlay violator to keep the evil media suits at bay. While we all hate Digital Rights Management, c’mon don’t hate the player, hate the game… ya know ?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:56:08 +0000

http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/huntingplayfair.html

“playfair is licensed under the GPL, but links to mp4v2 which is licensed under the MPL. The MPL is not GPL compatible. The developer of playfair could easily rectify this by changing the license of his code to MPL.”