Comments on: Cory jerks his knee again.

By: mns

mns — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:17:55 +0000

I’m not sure which is more annoying; Cory’s constant moaning about a product he refuses to use in the first place (how many times, exactly, do you have to burn an audio CD? You can simply burn it once, then rip it as mp3s, or, if you *must* burn it more than the times you’re limited to, add a track to the playlist, then remove it, or create a new playlist with a different name, but the same tracks. Problem solved), or his Disney fanboi-ism.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:17:34 +0000

My point, expressed murkily, was that you defined “broadcasting” to include an application that can stream music to, at most, a local subnet, and expressed an opinion that such behavior is subject to restrictions on the sorts of broadcasting that reaches millions of people. This was as unsound as claiming a copyright violation for “broadcasting” to an adjacent dorm room.

By: Nick Matsakis

Nick Matsakis — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:17 +0000

is it a violation of copyright law to play music in a dorm where other people might hear it?

No. And Apple’s software doesn’t prohibit this either. Was there some kind of point you were trying to make?

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:41:04 +0000

It is my understanding that copyright law prohibits you from broadcasting music that you have purchased (on CD or through the music store) to strangers in a coffeehouse or even friends on your dorm or office network.

On the planet you’re describing, is it a violation of copyright law to play music in a dorm where other people might hear it? No? Then calm down.

By: MLE

MLE — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:18:59 +0000

“functionality that was in widespread use by Apple customers who used it to extract new value from their investment in iTunes songs.”

…and was in widespread use by people who used it to steal music.

Totally agree with bbum here.

By: bbum

bbum — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:13:43 +0000

Very briefly: Yeah — total lossiness when going AAC->AIFF->MP3. So, rip to Apple Lossless or Shorten.

By: Paul D

Paul D — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:30:20 +0000

You get a definite hit in quality if you convert AAC to CD audio and then want to rip it back to MP3 to play elsewhere. The price of stripping the DRM is degraded audio, the cost of a CD, and a bunch of unnecessary effort.

As per Phil’s example, saying you can get rid of DRM by burning to CD is like saying you can turn rat into a hamburger if you put it in a bun with pickles.

By: Nick Matsakis

Nick Matsakis — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:53:15 +0000

but I wouldn’t exactly call the rat very friendly towards the consumer.

It lets you strip the DRM by burning to a compact disk, playable in any of millions of players worldwide. It lets you use the music in movies and DVDs authored on your computer to. I think it’s very friendly.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:24:50 +0000

Apple’s DRM scheme is certainly ‘better’ than most of the competition, but, that doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot. Eating a rat is better than eating feces, I’d wager, but I wouldn’t exactly call the rat very friendly towards the consumer. It’s just not as bad. Big difference.

By: Lekun

Lekun — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:35:25 +0000

If you look at the info of a song, it will tell you the “Fair Play” version of the song. If you bought a song under the fair play version of ten time burn times and 3 authorized, that should stay with that song and the new songs are under the new fair play (7 burn and 5 computers).

I never have maxed out fair play so it is totally innocous to me, but i believe Apple did not reduce fair play ‘features’ after purchase.