A Yahoo! article raises concerns about the of Apple's iTunes Music Store. "The industry's enthusiasm may be tempered by the emergence of Web sites and software applications that enable Mac users to search other Web-connected Mac computers' hard drives to listen to songs online, without the necessary licenses and permission." Privately, however, music executives say the service's success outweighs the problem.
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Maybe I should be worried that my neighbors or roommates can here my music too because afterall they didn't pay for it.
if I want to share my mp3's it's a whole lot easier to just turn on file sharing, or web sharing, or windows file sharing, and point it at my mp3 directory.
c***, is that earth shattering news of a "back door" too?
I buy music because I want to own it and listen to it whenever I feel like it. It's really that plain and simple. This concern over illegal streaming is c***. If anything, it facilitates discovering new music.
So if I blast my purchased music loud enough for more than five of my neighbours to hear it, am I "streaming" this to an illegally excessive number of users?
I mean REALLY.
I can't believe i just read that. 20 min of my life---wasted. I am stupider having read that article.
Success on Apples part when they are nit picking.
The problem isn't with streaming, the problem is that it is very easy to actually download an entire file to your own hd off of someone's shared music list, itunes shared playlists are streamed raw. Don't believe me? It can be easily facilitated by a fifteen line perl script. Suddenly, your songs are my songs.
please read the article below to see what the real stink is about. The reason the streams are for private use is because you need to pay royalties on music that is basically "broadcast" in a public way. Maybe somebody with more music industry background can shed more light, but internet radio streams are the same as regular radio in terms of royalties that need to be paid to the artists/publishers. That's why the one-hit wonders continue to get nice residual checks every year...
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2001/06/11/broadcasting/
I like the guy who says there are millions of unprotected masters out there -- CDs. And to think of the billions that the record industry made from reissues for the entire 1980s. At first, they had to build those factories, so CDs were more expensive. Then they were more expensive because they were more expensive. They're obviously planning to have a pay-per-play scheme somehow. The ideal thing would be getting teens to pay for their music by meter. 10 plays of the latest Backstreet Boys. Want to hear more? Pay more.
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Why do I bother with the news at all, if this is as good as it gets?
1. Listening to others' streams is NOT "song swapping" or "file sharing" or whatever the freak else such illegal practices are called. No illegal copies are made or distributed.
2. There is no f---ing backdoor around licenses and permission, at least as far as encrypted AACs are concerned. You can't even stream them to another iTunes listener without their owners' iTMS password. I know, because I got a password prompt while enjoying a neighbors' music the other night. I came to a protected song, and I couldn't listen to it because I don't know the password, so I moved on.
3. And of course, streaming narrowcasts to 5 or less systems at a time. Nuff said there.
All I know is that I am not looking forward to reading this same BS over and over again for the next several months, but stupidity is abundant in this world, especially among the news media, so I expect more of the same for a long time.