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ShadowDancer
When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie."London, UK
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i never thought it'd be the french of all people to come up with [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4833010.stm]this[/URL].
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[quote]Said Apple: "iPod sales will likely increase as users freely load their iPods with "interoperable" music which cannot be adequately protected. Free movies for iPods should not be far behind in what will rapidly become a state-sponsored culture of piracy." [/quote]
I thought you could load most of the popular music and video formats into an iPod? It was my understanding that the iTunes music would only play in an iPod, but the iPod could play anything else.
Jake
However, no doubt Bono will have something to say about it... After all, struggling artists like him "have to make a living" somehow, after all... :rolleyes:
funny being i was just there...
[B]I think the article is a bit off:
I thought you could load most of the popular music and video formats into an iPod? It was my understanding that the iTunes music would only play in an iPod, but the iPod could play anything else.
Jake [/B][/QUOTE]
you can play mp3's and aac's (apple's version of wmv) only on an ipod as i recall. that was one of the main reasons i went for a creative zen when my ipod broke; all my 15gigs of music on my pc is mp3/wmv, which meant that i had to have the wmv's converted to aac format before i could play it, so instead of having 1 music library i had 2, taking up nearly 30gigs of memory:rolleyes:
:)
Apple hype and elitism if you ask me...
Which you didn't, but I'm bound to say it anyway... :p
[B]"Encoding"? What is this technical sorcery you speak of??? [/B][/QUOTE]
its similar to voodoo, but easier
[url]http://cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6025[/url]
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Morden279 [/i]
[B]Ditto!
However, no doubt Bono will have something to say about it... After all, struggling artists like him "have to make a living" somehow, after all... :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]
I doubt he'll have much to say. In the early Napster days he commented he didn't care and think it made a difference to him anyway. Unless his attitude has changed I'd worry more about bands like Metallica who blame piracy for low sales of a terrible album :cool:
[B]I doubt he'll have much to say. In the early Napster days he commented he didn't care and think it made a difference to him anyway. Unless his attitude has changed I'd worry more about bands like Metallica who blame piracy for low sales of a terrible album :cool: [/B][/QUOTE]
Sorry, I was using Bono as a facetious example. ;)
God, Metallica... How much have *they* gone downhill?
[B]"downloading should be treated no differently than stealing a pack of gum from a shop." [/B][/QUOTE]
Do they sell packs of gum for £13.99 in Germany? That's how much the average album/DVD costs over here...
[B]France swings one way, Germany swings the other. Now in Germany if you download a movie or song you face up to 5 years in jail because "downloading should be treated no differently than stealing a pack of gum from a shop." [/B][/QUOTE]
Clarification: This has been the same way around here (Germany) before. The new law just gives way to a broad usage by the record industry.
(Btw.: You only go to jail if you [b]sell pirated music on a broad scale[/b]. Otherwise it is a rather steep fee: the normal market price of all music pirated and the court/lawyer expenses.)
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I like the French for this, the current demonstrations against the increasing work force exploitation and their planned "cultural flatrate" (which would make sharing music on the net legal - for a fee of ~15 € (20$) / month).