Apple's "Rendezvous" bites "Itunes"

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:

> [DRM, Utility vs. Infocontrol]
> 
> Apple is clamping down on piracy by imposing restrictions on the way
> that music downloaded from its iTunes service can be shared.

Guilty of provoking discord with intent to incite reading.
 
> But clever iTunes users found a way to extend this local sharing across
> the internet using Apple's own Rendezvous software.

/* NB. - netmask is not a limit. Perhaps this will be a marketing angle
later */
 
> "Some people are taking advantage of it to stream music over the
> internet to people they do not even know," it added. "This was never the
> intent."

"Now that it has taken off, we need to make RIAA happy."
 
> One angry user wrote on Slashdot: "The digital lifestyle is all about
> the fluidity of bits, the fact that all computers on the internet are,
> in some sense, in the same place, no matter where they're physically
> located."

People on Slashdot say just about everything.

> Others were less outraged and said that, even with the change, the
> iTunes service imposed far fewer conditions on its users than many other
> online music services.

If you bought a 'product' from a closed system and didn't take self 
help measures, why are you surprised when that closed system changes?

Really, there's no story here.


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Jamie Lawrence                                        jal at jal.org
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