digital music/video
03/14/2005, 10:25pm, EST
Monday, March 14th
iTunes 4.7.1 quietly brings sharing restrictions
With the update to iTunes 4.7.1, Apple has quietly introduced a limit to the number of users who can access your iTunes shared music per day, according to several posts on websites and Apple's own support area. The limit applies to the number of unique machines that can access the iTunes library via the built-in sharing feature and is separate from its iTunes music license agreement, which allows playback of purchased songs on five different computers. The sharing limitation prevents more than five different machines from accessing a users' shared playlist, regardless of whether the song is purchased from iTunes (protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM software) or whether it is a standard (unprotected) MP3 file. "This applies merely to the Rendezvous sharing feature of your music library and playlist... even if they are non-protected AAC's or MP3's and/or CD's you've ripped yourself."
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I haven't bought ANY itunes yet 'cause it's lossy (lousy?) and plays into the hands that might bite me in the behind in the end...
IMHO messsianic tendencies are Jobs worst trait...
I DON'T TRUST APPLE COMPUTER...
http://forum.osnn.net/archive/index.php/t-51907.html
/too lazy for html skillz now
You might be right, but he does have a point - DRM is DRM, no matter how 'Fair' it might be; you DON'T have control over it, someone else does.
They've already brought further restrictions in the past, and now even more. Hell, they might decide to turn this into a subscription model so you'd have to fork over more dough to listen to your already-purchased songs; unlikely, but they CAN do it, and that's what scary here.
No one is forcing anyone to upgrade, and, let's be honest, a fix connection maximum is either to stop your Mac becoming a server on a local network (think student residences at a University), or to stop your Mac being overwhelmed with connections. Let's also be honest about what we need it for, 5 simultaneous connections is 4 more than I need.
If they look away the feature, then I might be mad, but as it stands, I don't care, and I suspect the VAST majority don't either. Most people who seem to care, probably don't have more than 5 connected machines, so it's all just hot air.