I dig it too... anytime you can combine a good legal explanation, some snark, and top it all off with "oh balls", i'm happy.
Keep it up Engadget.
P.S. I doubt locking down the ability to turn previously owned songs in to ringtones is any more complicated than this: The record companies did not want to provide consumers with an EASY tool to turn their Limewire downloaded music in to ringtones. Its easy enough to steal music, but making it easy to turn in to ringtones cuts another revenue stream.
P.P.S. What kind of world are the record companies clinging to when they licence their songs to itunes and sell them for a buck, knowing full well consumers can only transfer them to an iPod? Apple just released an iPod that holds FOURTY FREAKING THOUSAND SONGS. At a buck apiece? Apple isn't releasing these things for no reason... somebody wants 160 gigs of music in their pocket. But i doubt anybodys gonna buy the 300 dollar music player with the intention of droping FOURTY FREAKING THOUSAND dollars of music in it.
Subscription, guys. Its the only way you'll stop the stealing. Wrap your head around it, find some new revenue streams, and let this dollar a track thing go. Apple, your customers, and everyone else already has.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I dig it too... anytime you can combine a good legal explanation, some snark, and top it all off with "oh balls", i'm happy.
Keep it up Engadget.
P.S. I doubt locking down the ability to turn previously owned songs in to ringtones is any more complicated than this: The record companies did not want to provide consumers with an EASY tool to turn their Limewire downloaded music in to ringtones. Its easy enough to steal music, but making it easy to turn in to ringtones cuts another revenue stream.
P.P.S. What kind of world are the record companies clinging to when they licence their songs to itunes and sell them for a buck, knowing full well consumers can only transfer them to an iPod? Apple just released an iPod that holds FOURTY FREAKING THOUSAND SONGS. At a buck apiece? Apple isn't releasing these things for no reason... somebody wants 160 gigs of music in their pocket. But i doubt anybodys gonna buy the 300 dollar music player with the intention of droping FOURTY FREAKING THOUSAND dollars of music in it.
Subscription, guys. Its the only way you'll stop the stealing. Wrap your head around it, find some new revenue streams, and let this dollar a track thing go. Apple, your customers, and everyone else already has.