geeksrus.com — A rebuttal on the backlash against Apple, Inc. for embedding user data in iTunes Plus songs. "I am sick and tired of people who think they should be able to freely give purchased content away to others. Apple and EMI have gone out on a big limb and an even larger experiment. If sales plummet, guess what? The RIAA will be in SEE! PIRACY! mode..."
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technopunditJun 3, 2007
OK, I won't.
technopunditJun 3, 2007
There is lots of music worth stealing. The problem is, there isn't very much music worth BUYING.
pifthemightyJun 3, 2007
pif Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. June 3rd, 2007 at 5:21 amThis is a mistake the same mistake they’ve been makeing for a while, they treat music lovers as criminals.This “Ok but we have our eye on you” is loaded with mistrust. This assumes guilt. These are customers, supposedly valuable, and in any other context they are.This is about control, power not economics. No one is competing for your dollar, they are trying to control you. Where is the free market on this issue? If I had the choice between information embedded and not, I would choose not.The sad truth is that the stolen product is still more desireable than the legitimate one. Sad.
rosefuJun 3, 2007
Why not care now? They said they were going to come out with a product to rival other MP3 sellers -- who do not embed personally identifiable information in their files -- but they still come up short. Software / technology should not be embedding anything related to the user into their software, period.To put it another way, and less nicely, you are a bunch of hypocrites. If this was done by Microsoft / Zune, you know you'd be all over it in an uproar.
ryosenJun 3, 2007
Specops, you're a moron. I've had PCs for over 25 years and never have I had an audio track stolen. And if one was, who gives a s**t if my name is on it? It's a bulls**t excuse and you know it.