Posted by G.T. on 06/12/06 18:00

RichardK wrote:
> NRen2k5 wrote:
>
>> RichardK wrote:
>>
>>> NRen2k5 wrote:
>>>
>>>> RichardK wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> NRen2k5 wrote:
>>>>> =
>>>>>
>>>>>> Your idiocy is noted - you can't play Napster tracks on an iPod
>>>>>> and that was my point. I guess you completely missed the "refuted,
>>>>>> goodnight".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason you can't play Napster is that they use a protection
>>>>> scheme that isn't supported by 70% of shipped personal digital
>>>>> music devices.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And there is no reason for that other than that Apple doesn't want
>>>> anything cutting into iTMS profits even one bit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Napster could run without protection.
>>>
>>>>> The reason that the 70% of devices are iPods is partly that
>>>>> Napster's terms are absolutely dreadful and restrictive compared to
>>>>> iTMS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. First, they use WMA. That means that without flip4Mac installed,
>>> I can't play their stuff on my Mac.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nobody uses Mac.
>
>
> Retard.
>
>>> iTunes is available for Windows and Mac. Secondly they only have 2
>>> million songs; iTMS has over 3 million.
>>
>>
>>
>> Which says absolutely nothing about them being "dreadful and
>> restrictive"; it only says that iTMS has more content.
>>
>>> Napster supports 3 computers. iTMS supports 5, IIRC.
>>> Napster supports 5 burns of a playlist. iTMS supports 7.
>>
>>
>>
>> Both of which are good as far as DRM goes.
>
>
> iTMS is better.
>
>>> And the model where you actually own the songs, rather than
>>> subscribe, costs just the same.
>>
>>
>> The same.
>
>
> But for WMA files. Which are only of use to Windows users. Unlike iTMS,
> which is of use to both Macintosh and Windows users.
>
>>> You have to buy it all over again if you want to cancel your membership.
>>
>>
>>
>> No. It works very well: The music which you really like, you buy. You
>> use the subscription service for flavour-of-the-week songs. It's a
>> good deal.
>>
>>> Screw that.
>>
>>
>> Trust an Apple user to have the reasoning abilities of a child.
>
>
> So, I'm still outdoing you then ;)
>
>>>> Which part of it do you purport to belong to Apple?? The FairPlay
>>>> DRM which was made by Veridisc, or the AAC content which was made by
>>>> MPEG? Or maybe iTunes, which was made by Casady & Greene?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> None of that; the bringing together of ALL of that, plus the iPod ;)
>>
>>
>> Exactly - it isn't Apple's technology.
>
>
> Apple own the technology - if Veridisc own it, perhaps THEY should be
> licensing it...
>
>>>> Once you buy an iPod, your only online music store is iTMS. This is,
>>>> what, the twentyfifth time I've had to repeat this?
>>>
>>>
>>> And the twentyfifth time you've been wrong, too.
>>> http://www.emusic.com/ (with thanks to the guy that pointed me at that).
>>
>>
>> Find music that people actually want to buy there.
>
>
> Pixies, Atom & His Package... just for a quick look. Regardless, you're
> wrong. The store even promotes that it works with iPods.

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Greg

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