Comments on: Hilary Rosen to Steve Jobs:

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 11 May 2005 06:28:02 +0000

Copy-Control is a farce.

I’ve had it initially stop me ripping a CD on a Windows box, but not ONCE have i even had a minor error in ripping CD’s via iTunes on my Mac.

less/un-popular systems are cool: no virus’, inadequate implemetation of copy-control, feelings of superiority when SPII is mentioned.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 11 May 2005 05:14:36 +0000

It’s fear plain and simple. They are afraid that Apple will become the wal-mart of the music world able to dictate prices and terms. They want people to be able to use their ipods on other services because then if the RIAA puts the screws to Apple forcing them out of business. The ipod users can simply move on to a smaller service that the RIAA is able to influence easier.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 11 May 2005 04:04:44 +0000

She has it all wrong. It’s Apple’s fault you can’t play music from the ITMS on anything but an iPod. It’s YOUR (points finger at Hilary) fault you can’t play music from other paysites on anything but an iPod. The solution: Just buy CD’s and rip them….oh wait, you can’t do that anymore either, because new CD’s are being released with Copy-control, which hasn’t even been successfully tested, and causes computer crashes. Now whose fault is that? So now it would seem that the only way to get music for whatever portable device you use is to “steal” it. Idiots. In your efforts to stamp out piracy, you’ve confirmed it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 18:43:41 +0000

âWhy isnât everyone (complaining about this)?â
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duh, WE ARE! we have been for years!

you just haven’t been listening, you asswipe. how does it feel to be proved wrong?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 16:49:08 +0000

:::YAWN:::

Buy yourself one of those creative mp3 players then and quit yer whining.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 06:37:30 +0000

It is pretty clear, Hilary has some points, but seems to be under the impression because Microsoft systems are more widespread that that makes them more “popular” or just that theres no alternative.

Don’t use DRM files. Don’t use iTMS, fools.

Hey – don’t buy an iPod. When you pick up that package, you agree to use iTunes. iTunes was (and still is, for me) a pretty simple, effective ripper and library manager a few years back, use it as one. Buy a CD.

And it is only so long before DAPs saturate the market, profits will become razor thin and the extreme mark-up Apple enjoys putting on its products will no longer be viable. Send in the clones, open up FairPlay.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 03:18:17 +0000

Actually the iPod does support an open format. It’s called DRM free MP3.

Just Say No To DRM

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:47:50 +0000

Same old story with Apple… Think of what the world might have been if they had let hardware OEM’s into the collective. Instead, they have to be everything or they are nothing, and we are still running Windoze. It will come back to bite them again, Hilary is right.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:25:21 +0000

she’s the one who wanted to protect the industry from the Pirates. DRM is their answer. why can’t she download an MP3 from another pay site and just put it on the I pod? Better yet someone should email her the .EXE file of Kaza Lite so she can get all she wants for her Ipod.

Rick

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 May 2005 23:33:03 +0000

Translation of RosenSpeak to English: “My favorite colour is Microsoft, and your colour is Apple, so therefore everyone should have to use Microsoft and not Apple”.

The sites she supports are *NOT* supported by other players. They use Microsoft DRM which is no more open than Apple’s DRM. This isn’t about freedom of choice, it is about agreeing with Rosen’s choice OR ELSE.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 09 May 2005 23:28:45 +0000

Now she knows how us “pirates” feel.