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| From | Andrew Hickey <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: mp3s/Paul McCartney |
| Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:08:26 +0100 |
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On 26/09/05, J&J Giddings <jandjgiddings@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> If you were looking for the Paul McCartney album or the b-sides don't go to iTunes.
> They have almost nothing listed at all! It's like "Ebony and Ivory", "That Girl is Mine"...
> nothing even mentioning the new album. What the hell?!?!?
> Does Paul have something against Macintosh/Apple? Hummmm, Apple...now that I think about it
> I could come up with a whole Paul-is-dead-esque theory about the copywrite issues about "Apple"
> Which came first, The Beatle or the Mac? 8-)
Actually the Beatles have sued Apple computers on several occasions
over that name simillarity, most recently after the launch of iTunes.
However, I think it's simply that the Mac doesn't have the Digital
Rights Management (or 'letting someone else take control of your
computer') features that Windows does, and afaik iTunes only offers
MP3s (which can be freely copied on P2P systems).
Assuming preventing unauthorised filesharing is your primary goal,
then selling tracks on iTunes is a very bad idea.
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