http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/ Engadget Comments for Former RIAA chief makes plea for "consumer rights" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/
You will notice that this "article" is actually written by Ariana Huffington, and is making fun of Hilary Rosen - who we already knew was an idiot.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/is this true?
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People always complaining about not having a choice, but they have anything but. The mp3 player market is totally flooded, so there's a lot of choice there. There are lots of different services, many of which she mentions in "her" article.

And yes, it also deserves a mention that this is A. Huffington's website. She was part of the circus governor election here in California, a total lefty-extremist. I am by no means a republican, but I am anti-extremist of any sort.

Fishes,
narco.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/
That's a bad argument - in the case of music, the music doesn't stay on the DVD. People take the songs off to put them on players. So you can go out an buy any of a million different MP3 players, and "play" any CD on them. I can buy any CD on earth and put it on my iPod. Or, I can *CHOOSE* (operative word here) to buy songs from the iTunes Music Store to put on my iPod. I don't see myself switching brands of players from the iPod to anything else in the near or far future, so I have no problem buying iTunes Music Store files.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3174167
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000912790
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.blog10may10,1,6051433.story?coll=bal-artslife-today&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Uh, check out the rest of the site. If Arianna's pretending to be Hillary Rosen, she's also pretending to be Larry David, Quincy Jones, any number of political wonks, oh yeah, and Walter Cronkite.

Oddly enough, without exception Huffington plays the rest of these "impressions" straight, Hil's the only one who comes off like an ignorant jackass. Funny, that.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/
Also, why post this? It seems a lot of work for a little satire.

Richard Bradley
What is Hilary Rosen Smoking?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/09/index.html]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/the fact that Microsoft-flavored DRM’d tracks won’t play on the iPod has more to do with Microsoft than it does with Stevie J.

I don't see how you figure that. Every time Real makes Rhapsody compatible with the iPod, Apple goes ballistic. Apple has NEVER publicly indicated they would be open to competing services playing on the iPod... on the contrary they have stated repeatedly that they feel the value they offer is in the integration betwen the hardware, software and music store.

Which is really the only thing that kept me from getting an iPod. I love music subscription services (my fav right now is fye.com ) and for iPods to start supporting them, Steve Jobs would have to decide he was WRONG about something... and that can take years...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/the fact that Microsoft-flavored DRM’d tracks won’t play on the iPod has more to do with Microsoft than it does with Stevie J.

But microsoft doesn't make portable MP3 players, the argument works - sort of, but look at it this way. Every single one of the thousands of MP3 players in the world play windows media. iPOD is effectively the only one that doesn't. (not to mention it doesn't play popular open source formats that would cost nothing to support)

On the flip side, iPOD is the ONLY player that plays apples retarded proprietary format.

Obviously you can't say its MS v. Apple, its everything v. apple, which unfortunately fore everyone else is still a pretty good fight.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/On the flip side, iPOD is the ONLY player that plays apples retarded proprietary format

I don't think there is one DRM system that is less retarded than any other DRM system.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/. don't eat apples they make you fat
. apples are bad for you.. it turns you into a geek
. ipods are for rabbits, trix are for hookers
. did someone say control freak
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'Note: NOT compatible with iPod'

Beside, Apples AAC format is standard, not a propitar format. the fairplay drm is. That's where the problem lies.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/Dec 19th 2005 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/former-riaa-chief-makes-plea-for-consumer-rights/
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