In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Köhlmann
<peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:09:48 +0100
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> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:13:14 -0500
>> <1d5b8sbjivaqt.hpkw7zlbmlf6.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:14:47 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> iTunes legal silences Hymn
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind
>>>>>| the open-source Hymn Project.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| Hymn develops software that strips Apple's FairPlay digital rights
>>>>>| management (DRM) technology from user's iTunes purchases, allowing
>>>>>| music fans to play their music on devices other than those from Apple.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, they suck. I've got one ipod left and once it's gone, all my apple
>>>> related stuff will be gone also. Never another apple purchase for me.
>>>>
>>>> I've got a decent shape 30gig, black video ipod... any takers?
>>>
>>> What an idiot......
>>> Yea I'll take the iPod...
>>> Send it to Mark Kent in my name so he can see what a quality mp3 player
>>> looks like.
>>>
>>
>> And what exactly is wrong with Microsoft's Zune?
>
> Nothing. It just sucks donkey dicks. Apart from that, it is fine
I wasn't asking you, I was asking Moshe. :-) However, I'm
inclined to agree, from what little I've heard regarding
some of its characteristics, which includes the very endearing
capability of playing a song three times then corrupting it.
By design.
Yeah, that's endearing -- to the RIAA maybe. Apparently
the iPod is a little better, but not much, and this whole
DRM requirement leaves a rather sour taste in my mouth.
At least with old 45's I could conceptually carry one
to my girlfriend's house in the 50's (were I to have a
girlfriend in the 50's, admittedly, since my mother wasn't
even a teenager in 1950, never mind *me*) and enjoy that
old fashioned rock and roll.
Even with today's CD's or DVD's I wouldn't have much
of a problem. But I wonder about Blu-Ray and HD-DVD,
not to mention plugging two iPods, Zunes, or other such
together via a USB cable and downloading very valuable
gold-plated instructions...erm, I mean, songs...from one
to another. ;-)
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