Comments on: DRM can bite my ass http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/ si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gene http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7676 Gene Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:11:27 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7676 It has everything to do with DMR. If I don't have to use a program that makes DMR decisions for "my" music that I have purchased, then I am better off. Your player, which needs ITunes to function normally, is the problem because it relies on a program that is buddy, buddy with DMR. When I drag and drop, my player says, "Okay, your the master, whatever you want!" The iPod is a fine piece of hardware but the software it uses has made me go elsewhere. My player doesn't warn me that I am about to do something legal but that it doesn't like. It has everything to do with DMR. If I don’t have to use a program that makes DMR decisions for “my” music that I have purchased, then I am better off. Your player, which needs ITunes to function normally, is the problem because it relies on a program that is buddy, buddy with DMR. When I drag and drop, my player says, “Okay, your the master, whatever you want!” The iPod is a fine piece of hardware but the software it uses has made me go elsewhere. My player doesn’t warn me that I am about to do something legal but that it doesn’t like.

]]> By: Roland Hesz http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7563 Roland Hesz Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:17:19 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7563 Ok, I see your point,though I don't know how a simple mp3 player is technically more difficult than iPod. I would say that if my mum - not a technically savy lady in this area - would have experienced the same thing, she would have been more angry than the lady who wrote the letter above. I don't think that technical ignorance makes it easier to accept that your music just disappeared. If you use it to store pics, then it is probably a good choice, though I only want to listen to music :) Ok, I see your point,though I don’t know how a simple mp3 player is technically more difficult than iPod.
I would say that if my mum – not a technically savy lady in this area – would have experienced the same thing, she would have been more angry than the lady who wrote the letter above.
I don’t think that technical ignorance makes it easier to accept that your music just disappeared.

If you use it to store pics, then it is probably a good choice, though I only want to listen to music :)

]]> By: John http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7547 John Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:12 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7547 My iPod has never decided what I am allowed to listen to, and I have never purchased anything from the iTunes music store, or even been bugged to do so. All my music is in MP3 format imported from my CD collection and it handles that perfectly. The design might be stupid, but I suspect that it is there to make the device as simple to use as possible for the 80% use-case. Apple is very good at keeping the usage model simple for people who do not want to understand technology. That has the side effect in many cases of frustrating those who do understand it and want to do different things with their devices or software than it was designed for. A simple flash drive model might make more sense to you, but would probably baffle a lot of the non-technical users of iPods (and the non-tech savvy community is probably still larger than the tech-savvy one, so it makes business sense to design for them). All of that said, the main reason I bought the device over the other choices however was that it supported downloading the photos from my camera directly. That allows me to leave the laptop behind when I am on a trip and still have a means to offload the images from the camera's flash cards. When I get home, the offloaded images are imported into iPhoto as if they were on a flash card. It makes my travel kit much lighter, and provides me with over 30GB of storage for images (allowing some space on the 40GB drive for some music, my contact list and the thumbnails of my recent photos). My iPod has never decided what I am allowed to listen to, and I have never purchased anything from the iTunes music store, or even been bugged to do so. All my music is in MP3 format imported from my CD collection and it handles that perfectly.

The design might be stupid, but I suspect that it is there to make the device as simple to use as possible for the 80% use-case. Apple is very good at keeping the usage model simple for people who do not want to understand technology. That has the side effect in many cases of frustrating those who do understand it and want to do different things with their devices or software than it was designed for. A simple flash drive model might make more sense to you, but would probably baffle a lot of the non-technical users of iPods (and the non-tech savvy community is probably still larger than the tech-savvy one, so it makes business sense to design for them).

All of that said, the main reason I bought the device over the other choices however was that it supported downloading the photos from my camera directly. That allows me to leave the laptop behind when I am on a trip and still have a means to offload the images from the camera’s flash cards. When I get home, the offloaded images are imported into iPhoto as if they were on a flash card. It makes my travel kit much lighter, and provides me with over 30GB of storage for images (allowing some space on the 40GB drive for some music, my contact list and the thumbnails of my recent photos).

]]> By: Ralph http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7535 Ralph Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:56:28 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7535 Fuck Corporate Mentality. Period. Fuck Corporate Mentality. Period.

]]> By: Roland Hesz http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7530 Roland Hesz Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:24:08 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7530 That is a most stupid design if it's true. That's why I don't use iPod, but a simple mp3 player. Smaller, cheaper, and it does not try to decide for me what I am allowed to listen to. It's just perfect. That is a most stupid design if it’s true.
That’s why I don’t use iPod, but a simple mp3 player. Smaller, cheaper, and it does not try to decide for me what I am allowed to listen to.

It’s just perfect.

]]> By: John http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7517 John Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:20:59 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7517 A little unfair as a criticism since it is nothing to do with DRM. It is part of the design of the iPod family that they are essentially mobile mirrors of a single iTunes library (or subset of it). If you sync an iPod to a different machine then it will erase the current songs and replace them with the library, or subset of it, from the new machine. I believe it warned me the one time I tried it, but I might be mistaken. A little unfair as a criticism since it is nothing to do with DRM. It is part of the design of the iPod family that they are essentially mobile mirrors of a single iTunes library (or subset of it). If you sync an iPod to a different machine then it will erase the current songs and replace them with the library, or subset of it, from the new machine. I believe it warned me the one time I tried it, but I might be mistaken.

]]> By: Gene http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2006/07/10/drm-can-bite-my-ass/comment-page-1/#comment-7500 Gene Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:29:18 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=14406#comment-7500 I have never had any of those problems with my IAudio player. Drag and drop and no ITunes! I have never had any of those problems with my IAudio player. Drag and drop and no ITunes!

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