Apple drops anti-copying measures in iTunes

[Mr. Laser Beam]

TV shows and movies will always have the DRM.

Is that because of the greater expense involved in creating the works, the potential for greater loss of income from pirated versions of those video based works?

Probably a bit of both.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

Neroon,

Actually, many articles including the Wikipedia article is very accurate to the best of my knowledge...

 

[msbae]

That ACTA treaty is worrisome as it could involve relaxed standards for monitoring the internet en masse.

The bill is largely being created in secret and may include provisions for internet filtering. Australia is already testing it's firewall (a nationwide firewall which nobody can opt out of) which is to filter "illegal content".


This bill could be very dangerous to internet freedoms in regards to privacy and could even be used to impose censorship (especially if a government was to decide that content depicting dissent was illegal content).


CuttingEdge100

Which is why I sincerely doubt the U.S. would sign the treaty. Not one of those jackasses in Washington want to be the guy who tells the American people that they can't do something when we're used to having our way.

Also, I'm sure there are more than a few Porno/Torrent-lovin' pirates in the Capital.

 

[msbae]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/06/ap...gy-cx_pco_0106paidcontent.html?partner=alerts

 

[DEWLine]

I've been keeping an eye on ACTA news via michaelgeist.ca myself.

Professor Geist is on the law faculty at the University of Ottawa, and as near as he and his sources can tell, the nations that seem most interested in keeping the negotiations under wraps include Canada(to my personal sorrow), Japan, South Korea and the United States.

Here's a link to a quick search of some of the material he's generated in the course of covering the negotiations.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

I've been keeping an eye on ACTA news via michaelgeist.ca myself.

Professor Geist is on the law faculty at the University of Ottawa, and as near as he and his sources can tell, the nations that seem most interested in keeping the negotiations under wraps include Canada(to my personal sorrow), Japan, South Korea and the United States.

Here's a link to a quick search of some of the material he's generated in the course of covering the negotiations.

I'm glad I'm not the only one keeping an eye on the matter.

This bill really bothers me (and I'm not a counterfeiter or anything), and the fact that it's being conducted in such secrecy only has me more worried.


CuttingEdge100

 

[Sean Aaron]

They didn't want to be dictated to, they were used to doing the dictating. So they let other outlets have it but not iTunes because Apple would not agree to their tiered price structure. I guess something changed that now.

And Apple has had DRM free music from EMI for a while now.

Basically the competition wasn't denting Apple's hegemony, so the labels decided some money was better than none.

I was buying from 7digital (MP3 DRM free at 256kbps), but their search engine is really shit, so this is welcome news. I don't buy a lot of music downloads, just the odd song here and there, but I've never been willing to pay for low bitrate DRM-enabled music.

Finally!

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

Just so you guys know... each iTunes DRM-Free music file has your account information and email address stored inside of it, so they can track it back to you if the file ends up somewhere online or on a P2P service or something. Not that its a huge deal to me since I dont really share files on the services, but it's knowledge worth knowing, particularly if you share your music with friends and family and they don't know or if your ipod or computer gets stolen:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49300555,00.htm

 

[David cgc]

Yes, this was found back when iTunes Plus first came out. It's quite possibly the most sensible DRM scheme ever. Just remember, whenever you give an iTP song to a friend or family member say, "I think you'll like this. Never send this file to anyone else ever or I'll get my ass in a sling. Kthxbye."

Of course, they'd probably only bother if there were albums and albums of stuff under a single person's name on torrents or whatever.