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How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPod (Parental Advisory)
Otto at the Reg has a really funny bit about Hillary Rosen iPod rant... But he is so completely wrong.
Rosen hasn't developed a sense of ACTUAL morality. The fucktard bitch is just pushing the RIAAs stance of "Of gee, we sat on our collective asses for so long that Steve Jobs is taking our lunch money." The problem isn't DRM support. The problem IS DRM. It doesn't matter who the DRM was developed by, it is always about lock in. Microsoft Lock In. Apple Lock In. Real Lock In. Doesn't matter. One DRM will win. It is a natural monopoly as long as shitheads like Rosen legislate it, and this time Apple is kicking everyone elses ass. Good for them.
No device can ever support every filetype, every DRM spec, every whatever that is out there. If this bitch had a clue, she would understand the reason MP3 took off is because IT WAS AN OPEN STANDARD. The only way to solve this problem is to wipe the entire slate clean, and use open standards -- not "Open if you pay big company X millions of dollars", actually open -- and get rid of DRM and asshat lobbiests like, oh, ROSEN, that criminalized format shifting, time shifting and device shifting -- the things consumers have always expected to be able to do since they took their LPs and put them on Cassette to listen to in the car.
Don't be fooled. She's still a whore, she is just trying to phrase her whoring out in a way that makes her seem like a good guy for once.
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RE: How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPo
Another post to which I can say nothing but amen. The DRM itself is the issue and you could not be more right about an open standard, such as MP3 itself, and the RIAA sitting on their asses.
RE: How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPo
Yeah - I read a couple of articles a few weeks ago talking about how pissed the record industry is because Apple is driving the train. The music guys never thought that Apple would do so well, now they hate it because they want to break the .99 song price barrier and Jobs won't budge. So I read the Rosen article as a little disengenous - they don't want Apple to open up for any reason other than breaking a hold on the monopoly that is keeping prices at .99
RE: How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPo
And a "monopoly" (apple, wal-mart and others) the record industry could have owned itself if they werent so stubborn about the per file delivery method.
Apple has kicked their arses at the very game they said would never fly.
RE: How Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPo
That's the thing, Apple is playing in a space they said had no future. Apple is playing by the rules that the RIAA and MPAA imposed through legislation. Apple is using the exact technologies that the RIAA said are needed to save the world.
And Apple is making RIAA, Sony, Microsoft and everyone else look like chumps, because Apple knows what people want: they want good hardware, they want easy and they want user interfaces that are simple and clear. Shocker! Just imagine if people had flexibility and choice on top of that! You think Apple would be worried about iPod sales if they could just sell MP3s? Hell no. They are winning because they are doing what they are good at, and for the first time they don't have an up hill battle against a monopoly with inferior products.
At the same time, for this bitch to say "It is hurting the consumer that Apple doesn't give Microsoft millions of dollars to license their DRM and let the continue their format monopolies!" Is that no the most retarded thing ever? Apple doesn't even care about a format monopoly -- they don't need it. However, now that they have invested all this money building DRM over MP4 files, why should the RIAA tell them that they have to license MS's inferior spec? Oh wait, it's so the RIAA won't have to deal with the monster they have created.
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Just read that the MPAA stated that it is as illegal to d/l or share music that it is to watch a DVd with friends since you are priving them from the money your friends didn't pay to watch the movies. It would be illegal unless they all posses the exact same copy of the movie... How ****ing stupid is that? Next thing you know the RIAA will sue you 'cuz you borrowed your friend mp3 player...
kill the sue 'em all