Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Mar 2006 22:51 UTC
French lawmakers approved an online copyright bill Tuesday that would require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players. The draft law - which also sets new penalties for music pirates - would force Apple, Sony, and others to share proprietary copy-protection technologies so that rivals can offer compatible services and players. An analyst expects that Apple is more likely to leave the French market, than to open its format in France. My take: Just buy CDs. They play in every CD player, and have no weird restrictions. In case you forgot, CDs look like this.
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2006-03-17
While it may be easier to just buy the CDs, companies like Sony (and any others who implement evil rootkits) are starting a war that they CANNOT win. I put Jamie Foxx's 'Unpredictable' CD in my PC with some "UNPREDICTABLE" consequences. I had written software for my PC which used the $$$ symbols in filenames (which Sony saw fit to use as markers as well) - rendering my Win98 implementation BROKEN!
I've written to Sony (and used much vulgarity in the message to get the point across) to let them know that I did NOT give them permission to install JACK - and that I will warn everyone I know to stay away from ALL Sony products. The fact is, if you can hear it with your two ears (or have the benefit of an 1/8" audio jack) you can copy it. No technology other than complete digitization and individual monitoring will ever stop pirating, and frankly - until the RIAA pulls their heads out of 'you know where' people will pirate audio files while the CDs cost $20+. Anyone who knows how discs are made also knows that it costs less than fifty cents to produce an individual disc, and that VERY little of the price actually goes back to the real artists. Buy music DIRECTLY from the AUTHORS - skip the evil corporate middleman (who are usually just interested in the top 20 countdown), and you may find that there is a vast range of styles and themes you'll never see on MTV or VH1, because they're not paying the blood-sucking marketing giants.
But until then, Peer-to-Peer your brains out while you still can!