BDC: iTunes https://bahua.com/a/v9aA All responses and updates to "iTunes" Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:46:00 -0600 en-us DRMAdvocate at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:13:00 -0600 https://bahua.com/a/v9aA
Also, I hardly think iTunes "spams you with ads". It has a link to its store, which you can click or not click. You're beginning to sounds suspiciously like one of those crazy open source zealots that can't accept the possibility that your free lunch (stolen software/music) might be taken away and try to couch your continued download of warez and music in the trappings of an ethical battle. I suppose you're making some small measure of difference, in that you're helping the music industry in general decline, but I'd much rather you just say "I'm cheap and I don't like to pay for things." (Fwiw, I'm cheap and I don't like to pay for things. I've conditioned myself to get free music and now I don't want to start paying for it again.) But if you *do* care about paying artists, Apple has a great method for buying and fairly using tracks, and I can't help but think you've fallen into step with yet another group of utopian idealogues who think they're 'making a difference' when they're really just cheap and persnickity.

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:13:00 -0600 DRMAdvocate's_Editor at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:15:00 -0600 https://bahua.com/a/v9aA
The other one just facilitates burning.

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:15:00 -0600 bahua at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:26:00 -0600 https://bahua.com/a/v9aA
Yes, I like getting my music for free, but I pay for it too. I purchase CDs and go to concerts, but make a concerted effort not to patronize RIAA outlets such as Clearchannel and Ticketmaster. I like getting my software for free, but I pay for the kind that costs money(except winXP, for which I will be buying a license soon).

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:26:00 -0600 DR._M at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:40:00 -0600 https://bahua.com/a/v9aA
Consider this future: iTunes sells a shitton of music, become one of the main outlets of music distribution. Since every label on iTunes gets the same deal, percentage-wise, artists start migrating to labels that give them a better cut. Artists get paid, people get music that they can use and share, and everyone is happy.

Except zealots.

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:40:00 -0600 bahua at Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:24:00 -0600 https://bahua.com/a/v9aA
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