Is not what it appears. 1. It’s a walled garden.  Only what is authorized can be traded.  All those live tracks, alternative takes, they don’t appear, only label-authorized stuff does. 2. The files are copy-protected WMAs. I don’t get this.  The labels are so unhappy with Apple, so pissed off at what a great job […]

How strong is the Apple brand?  Can the company ultimately make people buy what they don’t want? It’s a well known fact amongst insiders that Steve Jobs did not want to copy protect the tracks sold at the iTunes Music Store.  But he did so.  To comply with the wishes of major labels. Steve has […]

Used to be you waited a week, maybe a MONTH to upgrade.  But those were the days before OS X.  Having NEVER had a fuck up with an upgrade yet, I downloaded iTunes 4.9, and its companion software, iPod Updater 2005-06-26, TODAY!  You see, I just don’t want to be left out of the podcast […]

Who has more power, the major labels or Apple Computer? Bottom line, is Apple going to play nice with Sony BMG, are they going to employ/adhere to the copy protection scheme the record label is now using to encrypt its discs. The backlash is just beginning. Now Amazon, which doesn’t sell a whole hell of […]