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RIAA praises Apple piracy prevention

updated 11:10 pm EDT, Wed July 24, 2002

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Despite great division between the recording and computer industries over digital rights standards, the Recording Industry Association of America and Apple hold similar goals, according to CNN Headline News. "We believe in the protection of intellectual property. But that has to be balanced by consumers' fair-use rights," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple's iPod digital music player offers some music piracy protection: if users try to take MP3 song files on it and download them onto another computer, they will erase the iPod's hard drive. [Article link unavailable]

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The iPod does what?!?!

"Apple's iPod digital music player offers some music piracy protection: if users try to take MP3 song files on it and download them onto another computer, they will erase the iPod's hard drive". What?! You mean I can only transfer files from one Mac to an iPod? I can't take them to work then? Really?!

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only in sync mode

If you do it in manual mode, your fine but shhh, they apparently don't know that.

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07/25, 12:47am | report spam | close Reply |
One word...

PodMaster.

Just store a copy of the PodMaster app on your iPod and you can transfer the MP3s to whatever Mac you plug into, without using iTunes.

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PodMaster

Can you then expect iTunes to recognize those songs, ID tags and all... you put on the other Mac with PodMaster. Just curious?

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Erase the Hard Drive??

Isn't that a little on the extreme side? No software should have the right to destroy ANY data on your media, unless you request or desire it.

I was under the impression, though, that iTunes simply wouldn't let you import the MP3 files, not that it would erase your iPod HD. Can somebody confirm this for me, please?

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re: Erase the Hard Drive?

If you connect your iPod to a different computer, it will ask you if you want to sync it with the new computer. If you say yes, you will replace the contents of your iPod with whatever is stored in iTunes on the second machine. If the second machine doesn't have anything in iTunes, then you will end up with nothing on the hard drive. In any case, if you sync the iPod with the second computer, it will start off by deleting all of the songs on your iPod to make room for the new songs.

If you do not sync the two machines, you can then add more songs to the iPod from the second machine. However, iTunes will not allow you to import a song from the iPod onto the second computer.

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Importing from iPod

Aren't these messages just saying that you can't import from an iPod to a Mac? That is, you can only upload to the iPod from the Mac, but not the other way around?

I had thought that the "law" that the Rio followed was that music could be transferred one way only -- from the computer to the player -- which allowed the Rio to stay on sale. I would assume that the iPod was "legal" for the same reasons. . . .

Or is this not the case?

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re: Erase the Hard Drive?

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Actually Hollywood is trying to get a law passed that will allow them to hack/crack, disrupt, erase, DOS your computer if they think you are trading or downloading files. They would also be exempt from any legal action against them when they do it.

See: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html

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Really?

Well how the h*** are they gonna tell whats on my computer without hackin onto it in the first place? So what they have to do is assume everyone pirates music and then look on everyones computer to see what they have. Then get a warrent and searth their house for CD's. Then they can go back and hack the poor guy to smitheriens? People are sooo stupid sometimes.

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RIAA praise?

So now the RIAA is *praising* Apple for piracy protection? Wasn't it just a few months ago they were b!tching about Apple because of their "Rip. Mix. Burn." slogan? So which is it?

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07/25, 11:23am | report spam | close Reply |
Bad Company

Apple is already in trouble with it's Jaguar and QuickTime no-upgrade policies.

The LAST thing they need to do is get involved with the RIAA, probably the most riviled corporate entity on the face of the planet.

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Ha ha!

I think this is absolutely hilarious.

The only reason the RIAA, or at least this CNN writer, think that Apple and RIAA have common goals is because of this so-called copy protection "feature" found on the iPod that simply doesn't exist. The article makes it sound like the user is punished for plugging the iPod into another computer (the RIAA would like that), when that's not what happens at all. A user has to willingly replace all of the songs on his/her iPod with an empty iTunes library for this to happen. In most cases, the iPod can just be updated using manual syncing with no problems. This is not a big secret. Transferring in the other direction, is admittedly not possible (in iTunes at least), but it doesn't erase your iPod if you try...jeez that would suck.

A little research never hurts.

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re: Bad Company

How can you say that Apple is in trouble with their upgrade policy? Jaquar hasn't been released yet. And the $30 for Quicktime 6 was required to pay the MPEG-4 people their royalties. I paid my $30 and got an awesome product. And I will happily pay the $130 for Mac OS X Jaguar, because it is an OS and without it my computer won't work. I am a little peeved about having to pay $2000 for 2 OS X Server upgrades, but I'll recoup the cost in the first month. And it beats the Alternative of paying nearlly $10000 for Microsoft Solutions.

The people complaining about the lack of upgrade pricing is in the minority, no matter what anyone says here. 9000 people out of the Millions of users is less than 1% of how true Mac loyal people feel.

Speaking as a musician, I am glad to see steps being taken to protect intellectual property. Even if people feel the Music Industry takes a bigger cut than the musicians, if the industry feels threatened they will take it out on the musicians by offering smaller contracts.

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HeeHeee

PodMaster1000.
Transfer everything to the HD.
Open iTunes 3.
Add to Library.
Choose "move to iTunes Library".
Enjoy.

(oh, and apple, thanx for helping us out even more with your sweet iTunes 3 upgrade. At least i'm not punished for having iTunes 2 first. Like i was for 10.1

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HooHoo

...follow up...
And yea, my iPod disk is just fine. Its as easy as clicking "NO" to the question "sync with this library" as others said.
And finally, the id3 Tags are as good as new. Mmm...id3.

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RIAA praises Apple piracy prevention

updated 11:10 pm EDT, Wed July 24, 2002

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Erase the Hard Drive??

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Importing from iPod

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RIAA praise?

Bad Company

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