EFP;154582 Wrote: > seems like a pretty good reason to keep it closed for now.. maybe when > that path heads downward Apple will consider squeezing some money from > hardware vendors looking to support their well established army of > personal and incompatible lossy music libraries. > > itunes drm is a sham. if you accidentally delete a song from your ipod > and your local itunes - go ahead and try to download a new copy. what > happens.. "hey according to our records you've already got that song - > are you sure you want to be charged for it again? because we sure as > hell won't let you download it for free just because you've already > paid for it." > > Good grief.
Wow, that's a new slam against DRM, the laziness of a user to back up their stuff. In these days when most OS's come with backup software you can schedule to run at night and a 300mb+ external USB 2 hard drive can be gotten for about $200, it amazes me folks still don't back up their systems and valuable data. Keep it up, because from someone whose been in the PC business for over 25 years now (yeah, I still have my Timex Sinclair and have fond memories of my Apple //), everyone should know by now that it's not a matter of IF your drive will fail and you will lose everything on it, it's a matter of WHEN. Usually shortly after the warranty runs out, they're pretty good at calculating those MTBF's. How many actual copyright and/or patent holders do we have in here? I'm guessing not many. How many have music they haven't paid for? I'm guessing at least a few. It's easy to just bang your drum, it's more productive to find solutions. -- tlp [164kb MP3 encoded library (wish FLAC had been around when I did most of my ripping oh so long ago) -> PC -> 100 Mb network -> SB3 -> Denon 3805 (used mainly as a pre-amp / DSP) -> Speakercraft BB1265 running whole-house audio, rack of assorted amps, mostly older Carvers or Sunfires -> bi-amp'd Paradigm Reference Studio 100 V.3's, CC-570, ADP-470's, and my own make of electrostatics (hence the rack of Amps).] Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tlp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29626 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
