why this is not a dormant threat
This is my first post ever on a forum, and that disgusting piece of technology, itunes, is the reason that brought me to write it.
Let's set things straight: the whole idea behind iTunes is to make it near to impossible for people to share music (and now other things; films and books) so they will have to buy it instead. That means blocking people from sharing music with anyone in any form, with your friends, with yourself from your own CD's, 'illegally' with people you don't know etc. This is the goal of most of Macs checks on their later technology: to frustrate sharing (apple had almost the exact opposite purpose in mind, when they were a small company). And the reason we have to put up with this even when we just want to share it 'legally' is because a bunch of people who get lots of money from obsolete technology just cannot conceive life after digital technology, it's called path-dependency.
Now how does this work in the case of iTunes? Very simple, you basically just cannot move back and forth from folder to playlist, because they are engineered to be independent things. In this way if your girlfriend/boyfriend had some nice music that she wanted you to hear, and a nice series of lectures from university, a few audio books... she may succeed in uploading it to your iPod, but from there the nightmare starts, finding it, accessing it, passing it on, is just near to impossible. In another situation, if you had your whole library of CD's ripped and neatly organized in folders (say hundreds of CD's that you have bought throughout the years, like I have), iTunes will not want to understand that structure.
To those who think iTunes (and so many other of Macs 'checking' 'inventions') is innovative technology and we should "adapt to it or die" I would tell them that the internet and digital technology was far more innovative and its purpose was to facilitate information transfer and sharing, and that was its innovative aspect. The type of checks Mac and other companies put on this crucial aspect of the technology is equal to a check on innovation, guided by an obsolete view of the world. Those who should adapt to this new technology (record companies, software producers, computer companies, so-called "artists"...) are basically curtailing it from scratch because they are too narrow-minded to understand life after making big bucks and they have allowed their lives to become too dependent on intellectual property rights.
When will someone come up with an embedded player in explorer/finder that just reads your folders as you have organized them, so that you can directly share your music with your friends?
This is my first post ever on a forum, and that disgusting piece of technology, itunes, is the reason that brought me to write it.
Let's set things straight: the whole idea behind iTunes is to make it near to impossible for people to share music (and now other things; films and books) so they will have to buy it instead. That means blocking people from sharing music with anyone in any form, with your friends, with yourself from your own CD's, 'illegally' with people you don't know etc. This is the goal of most of Macs checks on their later technology: to frustrate sharing (apple had almost the exact opposite purpose in mind, when they were a small company). And the reason we have to put up with this even when we just want to share it 'legally' is because a bunch of people who get lots of money from obsolete technology just cannot conceive life after digital technology, it's called path-dependency.
Now how does this work in the case of iTunes? Very simple, you basically just cannot move back and forth from folder to playlist, because they are engineered to be independent things. In this way if your girlfriend/boyfriend had some nice music that she wanted you to hear, and a nice series of lectures from university, a few audio books... she may succeed in uploading it to your iPod, but from there the nightmare starts, finding it, accessing it, passing it on, is just near to impossible. In another situation, if you had your whole library of CD's ripped and neatly organized in folders (say hundreds of CD's that you have bought throughout the years, like I have), iTunes will not want to understand that structure.
To those who think iTunes (and so many other of Macs 'checking' 'inventions') is innovative technology and we should "adapt to it or die" I would tell them that the internet and digital technology was far more innovative and its purpose was to facilitate information transfer and sharing, and that was its innovative aspect. The type of checks Mac and other companies put on this crucial aspect of the technology is equal to a check on innovation, guided by an obsolete view of the world. Those who should adapt to this new technology (record companies, software producers, computer companies, so-called "artists"...) are basically curtailing it from scratch because they are too narrow-minded to understand life after making big bucks and they have allowed their lives to become too dependent on intellectual property rights.
When will someone come up with an embedded player in explorer/finder that just reads your folders as you have organized them, so that you can directly share your music with your friends?
