By Ina Fried
Published: Friday 06 August 2004
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Anonymous
Location
UK
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CTO
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To Ronan & Dan,
Can you please get off your Apple "high horse" please. If you understood DRM you would know that allowing other players to use the FairPlay system, gives you the end user a choice as to what player you use to access your content, as opposed to forcing you to use iTunes.
The rules applied to DRM are set in the licence, not in the player. Therefore if Apple released their interface to "trusted" players, the rules would be correctly applied and would not result in "unlocking" files to be "given away".
Everyone was happy to throw the book at Microsoft when they locked users in to using Internet Explorer, but seem happy when it's the other way round...
Screw Virgin Music,
Apple put in hard work and ...
Dan Isley
Apple has the worlds best digital music player.
A...
Ronan Donohoe
To Ronan & Dan,
Can you please get off your App...
Anonymous
To Anonymous, People complain they are locked into...
Anonymous
Two points about this 'argument'.
Firstly, I wo...
Anonymous
Good on you Ronan, You tell tham
Anonymous
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