http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/ Engadget Comments for DVD Jon's is back to once again make FairPlay fair 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/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/
AHAHAHAHAHA. OK.]]>Oct 2nd 2006 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/
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Tell me that's just a coincidence.]]>Oct 2nd 2006 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 4th 2006 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/
"Surely thisll break when Apple do an update, leaving all the customers of these ‘licensed’ companies with unplayable media until an update (if possible) is made available. You wouldnt see me buying any media from those companies.

Also, what EXACTLY is stopping these companies selling their media to work on the iPod as it is? The article makes the iPod sound as if it will only play DRMd files. Just sell MP3s or MP4 movies and theyll play on the iPod.

This sounds like a very dubious business idea to me."]]>Oct 2nd 2006 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/
Sure, they'll play, but the company has no way to protect their content. Jon's (dubious at best) venture is to offer apple-compatible DRM to protect your content, but at a discount rate. Doesnt really sound so hot to me, Jon- is there even a demand for a service like this?]]>Oct 2nd 2006 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/"Sellers with more than one product may seek to tie the sale of one (which the customer presumably desires) with that of another (which it presumably does not want). Such tie-ins are governed not only by the general language of the Sherman Act, but the more particular provisions of Section 3 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits such arrangements if the likely result is substantially to lessen competition. Tie-ins are per se unlawful if the seller possesses sufficient market power in the tying product, and coerces the buyer to take the tied product as a condition to obtaining the desired product."
From http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6538

Apple is tying the sale of iPods to the sale of iTunes, because iTunes is a form of digital music that has been made to play only on the iPod. Long ago the phone company used to own the phone (buy an old one on eBay and the sticker will say it's the property of Ma Bell), but that was an illegal tying agreement, discarded in the IT&T breakup. Radio Shack went crazy selling cheap digital phones when private telephone ownership was permitted. In the same way, Jon's idea is brilliant and will unleash commerce, unlocking the consumer power locked into the iTunes scheme. By allowing vendors, including independent bands and musicians, to sell music that will play on the iPod, they will gain access to the iPod listener market that they are currently locked out of. By allowing people to play their iTunes on the Zune, we will increase the value of the iTunes to purchasers who do not want to flush their music collection down the toilet, but would really like a non-Apple music player. Nor can Apple complain that iTunes buyers are getting more than they paid for. If anyone has standing to complain about expanded use of iTunes beyond iPod listeners, it might be the music labels that licensed music to Apple believing it would be played only by the Apple listener population, leaving them to develop the remainder of the market. However, I believe there are only so many listening hours available to every listener, and owning a file doesn't equate to hearing it. What is clear is that artificial limitations on file-handling are the means for media monopolists to dictate who gets to speak and what we get to hear. Jon's work will release the energy locked up in Jobs' crippleware, and I agree with Fortune magazine that this will be a disruptive event of no small magnitude.]]>Nov 10th 2006 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/
While there may be companies looking to license his DRMd content and sell it (this is, after all, an Apple-centric market), I, for one, will not support our Digital Rights Restricted Lossy overlords with one cent.]]>Oct 2nd 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 2nd 2006 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 3rd 2006 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 3rd 2006 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 3rd 2006 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 3rd 2006 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 11th 2006 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 3rd 2006 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 7th 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 9th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jons-is-back-to-once-again-make-fairplay-fair/Oct 12th 2006 5:42AM