Good thing iPods are pretty much dead now. Online music streaming is where it's at.
not for people who are serious about music
Good thing iPods are pretty much dead now. Online music streaming is where it's at.
1. Shame on Apple for doing this if it is true.
2. Why does it take THIS long for someone to throw a fit about an issues ?
Under a rock? I wish. I live with 3 women (wife and two daughters). That is definitely between a rock and a hard place.
/wife reads quote over shoulder
/smacks back of head
Online streaming is good for people like me who have a wife that requests christmas music while we do the tree stuff. I don't have a ****ing christmas music, nor do i want any. Stream away!
Google does not sell personal information to advertisers. That would be stupid and destroy their revenue source.
Instead, they sell anonymously targeted ad slots... just like Apple does with iAds.
You are correct, the title is misleading... That said, this statement from Apple is utter crap : "Farrugia also said the company's efforts to delete music acquired from third-party sources was done in an effort to protect consumers from hackers and malicious content"
IF I recall correctly, Samsung tried spoofing the iPod USB ID in an effort to connect iTunes to its own iPod clone. Apple might have had to do for your protection. Or maybe not.
Title: Apple Deleted iPod Owners' Songs Downloaded From Competing Music Services Between 2007 and 2009
Corrected Title: iPod Owners' Songs Downloaded From Competing Music Services Between 2007 and 2009 Didn't Sync to Their iPods
Statements like these drive me nuts. What is evil about about seeking to make a profit. If investors could not make a profit, they would not risk their money. There would be no company. We would have no products.
I go to work daily... for profit more than anything else. Am I evil? You likely have a job and go to work. To make profit. Are you evil?
GUISE,
This is NOT about Apple deleting music that you didn't get from iTunes. Like music you ripped from a CD or music you downloaded from Napster or Bittorrent or whatever.
This is about Real Networks (of RealPlayer fame) reverse-engineering FairPlay (Apple's DRM scheme) and applying it to music they sold you. That made the music look as if it came from the iTMS, enough that the iPod could play it while still being encrypted with DRM which Real was required to do back then. (Normally, iPods could only play DRM-encrypted files from the iTMS).
*That* is what rubbed Apple the wrong way. Not that you got your music from some other source than Apple's iTMS. iTunes started out *without* the store, remember? (In fact, iTunes started its life as a product called SoundJam.)
Google 'fairplay harmony' for some more info.
I don't know what's worse.
What they did or their awful comeback:
classy
Glassed Silver:mac
That's true. It's the same with leasing a car though too. It's not for everyone, but if you always want to get the latest music, you can do so and have unlimited access so long as you keep paying a minimum per month. For me, it's cheaper to stream music than to purchase every track I like.
Kind of a misleading title... its not like Apple went in and deleted those specific songs without the owner knowing (essentially like hacking). The iPod was restored, which coincidentally erases the entire contents of the iPod.
This is utter BS. All the years I used iPods aproximately 0% of my music came from iTunes and I never had a problem.
This entire lawsuit is ridiculous. If Apple doesn't want to support music purchased from other sources, it shouldn't have to. Can I bring suit against Sony because I can't play my Xbox games on Playstation? I think Sony is trying to form a monopoly on the video game market by not accepting formats purchased through other developers.
Good thing iPods are pretty much dead now. Online music streaming is where it's at.
isn't this not a apple centered forum and news site? If someone wants to hate on apple why do they feel the need to do it on macrumors?
Simple solution. Leave #
Ahh yes. Because something did not happen to you it could not have occurred. My house has never been robbed. It is BS if anyone ever says they have been robbed. In the end a court will not allow you to just make up stuff. If the plaintiff's lawyers say this happened they have to prove that it did indeed happen and that it was not an aberration, but a common practice that occurred.
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You could if you updated your PS4 and it erased your Xbox games in doing so.
Except, how can they prove this happened? Are they going to go back in time, grab an old iPod and the same music files that they used and then stage the demonstration? Or, are they simply going to load up a current iPod with music from iTunes and Amazon and then reset the device, showing that all music has been deleted? In which case, that proves what exactly?
What does any of this have to do with Apple deleting music that was purchased not from them? This alone should be a huge no-no.iTunes content is licensed, not sold. Same with other services. Each user agreed to the license conditions.
Apple also had documentation on how to REMOVE the DRM from its music, how to rip from CD's, and more. If others are upset over licensing music from other services that did not allow the content's DRM to be removed, that's not Apple's fault.