[ale] ipods under linux

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On 07/25/2009 11:04 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>> George Carless wrote:
>>    
>>>>> No flames from this end. I've been watching the same events thinking
>>>>> tha Apple has been just egregious in pursuing product lock-in. And
>>>>> Palm has become my new hero by taking them on. Think back to the
>>>>> time of records. Imagine if Columbia Records had produced vinyl
>>>>> records that could only be played on record players produced by
>>>>> Columbia. Do you think the people or the courts would have tolerated
>>>>> it? I simply will not buy any more Apple products, no matter what
>>>>> the "coolness" factor might be. And this applies especially to songs
>>>>> on iTunes. The alternative is out there and it's DRM-free music from
>>>>> Amazon.
>>>>>          
>>> Apple's been shifting away from DRM for a good long while, now, and at
>>> this point everything on the iTunes store is DRM-free.  Yes, it's AAC
>>> and not MP3, but no DRM.  In fact, I would be quite surprised if it
>>> didn't turn out that it'd been thanks to Apple's efforts with the labels
>>> etc. that had led to the likes of Amazon being able to offer music DRM
>>> free.
>>>      
>> And as I noted earlier, you can burn a cd of any of your iTunes music,
>> drop that on your Linux box, convert to drm-free mp3s.
>>
>>    
> All of this just reinforces that fact that Apple forces you to jump 
> through hoops to play music you purchased from them if you don't play it 
> on their devices. The fact that you know how to jump through the hoops 
> doesn't make it an acceptable situation. It was this kind of chicanery 
> that brought me to Linux in the first place. I want devices and file 
> formats that don't treat me like a child.

They could make it a whole lot harder by not permitting you to create 
the cds to start with.  I think it's a lot fewer hoops then trying to 
play other music formats on Linux.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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