Who has more power, the major labels or Apple Computer?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The backlash is just beginning.<\/p>\n
Now Amazon, which doesn’t sell a whole hell of a lot of CDs, but which many
people use as a reference tool (as is in finding what to download!), now STATES
that discs are copy protected, it’s not like the label can hide this fact,
like they did with Anthony Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Then there was last weekend’s story in the "Washington Post".<\/p>\n
And now people are buzzing about it on the Web.\u00c2\u00a0 Sony BMG has woken up a
sleeping giant, the American public, for whatever burns they’re going to
eliminate, they’re going to pay a much higher price in ill will as a result of this
failed scheme.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess Andy Lack just doesn’t know what it’s like to be a fan,
wanting to take your music EVERYWHERE, not wanting to buy it on disc AND at the
iTunes Music Store so it can sit on your iPod.<\/p>\n
The iPod.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a juggernaut.\u00c2\u00a0 The coolest\/must-have device of the teen set.\u00c2\u00a0
And any baby boomer who doesn’t have one is just out of the loop, no one in
their circle has one YET.\u00c2\u00a0 And, when podcasting truly hits, BOY will there be a
revolution…music you want to hear, that you can FAST-FORWARD THROUGH!\u00c2\u00a0 And
Apple’s got the most seamless solution for that.\u00c2\u00a0 But, the point here is
statistics.\u00c2\u00a0 The iPod dominates.\u00c2\u00a0 And is continuing to do so.\u00c2\u00a0 By not playing with
Apple, the labels are demonstrating heretofore unknown hubris.\u00c2\u00a0 (Then again,
they HAVE demonstrated continuing ignorance for the last five years…)<\/p>\n
Bottom line, if you use a PC, you cannot import songs from copy protected
discs in iTunes, you can’t create a file that you can transfer to your iPod, you
can only create a copy protected WMA.<\/p>\n
Now if you’ve got an UNPROTECTED WMA, iTunes will convert it into a format
the program can read, which you can transfer onto your iPod. (Only with a PC, if
you’ve got a WMA on your Mac, you’re fucked.)\u00c2\u00a0 But, if the WMA is copy
protected, you’re shit out of luck as an iPod owner.<\/p>\n
So, I ask you, are the major labels that powerful, are they such a driving
force that they’re going to CHANGE THE MARKETPLACE?\u00c2\u00a0 Drive all music to
Microsoft, make Creative the biggest seller of hand-held MP3 players?\u00c2\u00a0 Can Phil
Jackson make the Lakers win the NBA Championship next year?\u00c2\u00a0 No, can the KANSAS CITY ROYALS WIN THE WORLD SERIES THIS YEAR??<\/p>\n
I mean you’ve got to play in the REAL WORLD!<\/p>\n
iPod owners are the MOST dedicated music consumers, they’re going to throw
out their iPods and purchase inferior players for a couple of hundred bucks?\u00c2\u00a0
Never going to happen.<\/p>\n
So why doesn’t Apple just bend.\u00c2\u00a0 Make iTunes WMA compatible…<\/p>\n
Let me ask you, would you give Microsoft, an adjudged monopolist with an over
ninety percent share of the desktop market, a LEG UP??\u00c2\u00a0 I mean what’s the
advantage to Apple?\u00c2\u00a0 They need to make the LABELS happy?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s NOT ABOUT the
labels, the iPod doesn’t depend on the iTunes Music Store, if you think people are
filling up their iPods with AACs they’ve bought at the iTMS you just can’t do
the math.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re stealing the music, ripping it…<\/p>\n
WHOOPS, you can’t rip your CDs anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 You paid in excess of ten bucks for
the disc and you can’t put the tunes on your iPod, HOW FUCKING HAPPY ARE YOU
GOING TO BE!!<\/p>\n
Well, what you’re going to do, which is what everybody IS doing if you’re
paying attention, reading the reports on the Web, is just go online and STEAL the
music they paid for.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Sony BMG is actually DRIVING P2P theft!\u00c2\u00a0 How
fucking nuts is that?<\/p>\n
Or, of course, you could have thrown in with the future to begin with.\u00c2\u00a0 You
could be a Mac user.\u00c2\u00a0 The discs rip just fine in iTunes on a Mac.\u00c2\u00a0 Which means
not only can you burn CDs ad infinitum, you can upload files via P2P services
to EVERYBODY!\u00c2\u00a0 And insiders know it’s VERY FEW people who seed the P2P
services with the tracks that are traded by millions.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a couple of Mac users
uploading and your goal has been EVISCERATED!<\/p>\n
Oh, that’s right, Sony BMG’s goal is to stop CD burning.<\/p>\n
Please, PLEASE Sony, get me to stop using my Mac Plus.\u00c2\u00a0 Get me to stop using
my Smith Corona typewriter.<\/p>\n
But my Mac Plus is in the closet.\u00c2\u00a0 And my Smith Corona typewriter is in the
garage.\u00c2\u00a0 Both essentially worthless.<\/p>\n
I’ve moved to files.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole WORLD is moving to files.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t Andy Lack
and Michael Smellie have any FRIENDS?\u00c2\u00a0 Never mind with KIDS?\u00c2\u00a0 CURSORY field
research would tell them they’re headed in the wrong direction here.<\/p>\n
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