Comment Re:Slight change in the rules... (Score 1) 910
Argh! You did it again! You're confusing the capabilities of the player with the properties of the file that you bought. If you want to use iTunes 4.2, then it has certain capabilities with regard to the encrypted files that you bought. iTunes 4.5 has different capabilities, while RealPlayer has still others. You have several viable alternatives to choose from when it comes to playing the music that you purchased. Isn't that what you want? "Well, I could choose flavor A which does one thing, or flavor B which does another."
There's no critical bug-fix here which you have to have, and all the choices aren't even from the same company. If you don't want to, you don't need to manipulate QuickTime, I just pointed that out in case you were one of those types that enjoyed the DIY approach. It is true that the CD's that you bought in '88 can still be played on a CD player, but the LPs that you bought before that can't be, and no one is proclaiming the arrival of big brother with quite your panicked, apocalyptic tone.
I don't mean to be overly hostile here, but I just don't understand your tone. People dislike what Microsoft does (and I do dislike it, though I don't ever recall posting that MS is evil) because there is no alternative if you don't want your system to be rooted by script kiddies. That is not the case here. You have several viable alternatives that all do the same basic thing but differ in the details. If Apple ever finds an exploit that roots from iTunes, and then patches it with a version that changes your license, then I'll be the first to step up and condemn them. And you know what, so will everybody else! Which is why they won't do it, because there are plenty of other online music stores out there waiting for them to fall. Isn't a free market wonderful?
There's no critical bug-fix here which you have to have, and all the choices aren't even from the same company. If you don't want to, you don't need to manipulate QuickTime, I just pointed that out in case you were one of those types that enjoyed the DIY approach. It is true that the CD's that you bought in '88 can still be played on a CD player, but the LPs that you bought before that can't be, and no one is proclaiming the arrival of big brother with quite your panicked, apocalyptic tone.
I don't mean to be overly hostile here, but I just don't understand your tone. People dislike what Microsoft does (and I do dislike it, though I don't ever recall posting that MS is evil) because there is no alternative if you don't want your system to be rooted by script kiddies. That is not the case here. You have several viable alternatives that all do the same basic thing but differ in the details. If Apple ever finds an exploit that roots from iTunes, and then patches it with a version that changes your license, then I'll be the first to step up and condemn them. And you know what, so will everybody else! Which is why they won't do it, because there are plenty of other online music stores out there waiting for them to fall. Isn't a free market wonderful?
