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iPod Lawsuit Against Apple Given Class-Action Status
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Where did they get my email address, anyway...? And is it legal for them to include a UK resident that is obviously not part of the Class?
I think an organised action with intent to harm or bankrupt a company is not legal. I consider it terrorising. Also, if you think you are in the right because they do it too, you are just as bad as them.
I agree, the lawsuit is ridiculous. The legal system should be adjusted in a way that makes these kind of lawsuits backfire. Again; the legal system is made to resolve these things: let them.
More like you get $0.01 - if you bought 10 iPods. It's all in the math:
The claim is that "software updates caused iPod prices to be higher than they otherwise would have been."
Let's say it cost Apple $100,000 to write the specific software update to block the Harmony cracked DRM (why not?). Divide that by the number of iPods sold during the lawsuit's covered period - around 100 million - and you get $0.001 per iPod sold. That's 1/10 of 1 penny. Even if my numbers are off by a factor of 10 or 100, you're still talking pennies; and it's more likely my numbers are off by a factor of 10 in the OTHER direction.
But hey, nothing like a good Apple Lawsuit story to juice up the presses! This made it to the front page of CNN today. /sigh
High school attitude, for sure. I'm sure your opinion will be different if you graduate from high school, if you go to college, if you graduate from college, and if you get a real job.
Civil disobedience (à la Martin Luther King) is a good tool for the big wrongs, but anonymous terrorism and illegal disruption (DDOS) for a trivial thing about Apple's abuse of its monopoly power is another.
Well they did allow you to download all the songs that went iTunes+ for free. :/
The iPod not only did AAC, it also did MP3. I was ripping my own songs from my CDs when I got my first iPod, not only that I was burning and re-ripping tunes that I bought from the iTunes Store.
Hugh
try you had to pay 30 cents a song to strip off the DRM and still have to pay it last time I check.
How is suing someone repeatedly "anonymous terrorism and illegal disruption"? It's not anonymous, and it's legal to sue someone.
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No, AAC is just a better (and newer) format than MP3. Apple doesn't want to use that bad format that makes the bass sound horrible.
But Apple should release stuff as Apple Lossless, not lossy AAC.
::: smacks head::: Yeah you right, I must of gotten how it works now vs then. It was 30 cents (US), that I never thought that was a lot. :/
Hugh
that 30 cents can and does add up fast. 30 cents per song to basicly remove drm. It would of been failly recently they offered to strip off the DRM.
Stop misreading the suit.
Its not that iPods can't play music, the suit is simply stating that during the time of DRM music in iTunes allowed for the price of the iPod to go up. Meaning that because the iPod was, for a certain period of time, the only music player capable of playing the iTunes format, that customers bought the iPod at a price premium set by a monopolizing force.
As in, the fact that it was the only brand of music players allowed to carry the proprietary DRM decryption key, the market for iPods was cornered unfairly, and anyone who bought one overpaid due to said monopoly.
As such, the purchaser MUST have purchased the iPod during the period before DRM free iTunes content to be elligable for the class.
Sources: intelligence.
Its not that iPods can't play music, the suit is simply stating that during the time of DRM music in iTunes allowed for the price of the iPod to go up. Meaning that because the iPod was, for a certain period of time, the only music player capable of playing the iTunes format, that customers bought the iPod at a price premium set by a monopolizing force.
As in, the fact that it was the only brand of music players allowed to carry the proprietary DRM decryption key, the market for iPods was cornered unfairly, and anyone who bought one overpaid due to said monopoly.
As such, the purchaser MUST have purchased the iPod during the period before DRM free iTunes content to be elligable for the class.
Sources: intelligence.
I received my class action lawsuit email yesterday. How the frak did they get my email address?
If a person wants to be excluded, they must send an Exclusion Request in the form of a letter sent by mail. It's a United States Postal conspiracy to get me and hundreds of thousands to buy a stamp and send a letter by post
If a person wants to be excluded, they must send an Exclusion Request in the form of a letter sent by mail. It's a United States Postal conspiracy to get me and hundreds of thousands to buy a stamp and send a letter by post
Good for you that you could use a separate program just to re-encode your own itune music. BTW you re-ecoded from one lossy format to another lossy format giving you an even lossier file.
AAC has slightly better compression, but they're both lossy formats. Depending on how lossy you want the file, you can make the file as big or as small as you want. At very low bitrate, AAC is much better. I know because I encode small sized MKV's with AAC. At higher bitrates, the differences diminish and disappear.
If you don't register, you are already included. Just wont see any money.
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Then you are forced to pay for a stamp, for a piece of paper and time to write the letter. Why? Why are you forced to do that?
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Then you are forced to pay for a stamp, for a piece of paper and time to write the letter. Why? Why are you forced to do that?
Hog Wash
This will be given in Apple's favor. It's like complaining you can't run a Mac OS on Android or your GM engine will not fit perfectly in a Ford truck. Also Microsoft's WMV file has been long proprietary. Baseless nonsense.
This will be given in Apple's favor. It's like complaining you can't run a Mac OS on Android or your GM engine will not fit perfectly in a Ford truck. Also Microsoft's WMV file has been long proprietary. Baseless nonsense.
A lawsuit that should happen is this: Class action for PS4 users who cannot, I kid you not, play CDs on this newly released device. And this simply because Sony wants their users to pay to use their music service.
I can play DVD & Blu-ray on my PS4 but no CDs!? This is hilarious because the PS3 could play 'em. This was designed for pure greed and without consideration of the user.
I can play DVD & Blu-ray on my PS4 but no CDs!? This is hilarious because the PS3 could play 'em. This was designed for pure greed and without consideration of the user.
LOL at anyone who bought or is buying music through iTunes. There are tons of other sources for as little as $.3-.05 per song.
For those that did, it's always been pretty easy to remove any DRM.
I completely understand the lawsuit and IMO it's ridiculous. Just going to make the lawyers rich and raise prices eventually.
For those that did, it's always been pretty easy to remove any DRM.
I completely understand the lawsuit and IMO it's ridiculous. Just going to make the lawyers rich and raise prices eventually.