Ya know Willyboy we get it you hate MS for reasons you can't quite define. But who cares? It's getting really old to see article after article after post after post with useless pointless repetitive nonsense from people like you.

And frankly what shitty deal? I can buy a pretty decent computer for 500 bucks with Windows preinstalled. And nothing prevents me from throwing on the very same version of Linux that Mac fans are so turgid for and yet too clueless to realize that they were the last people to get. Yes I was using the OS on a PC before it was ever on a Mac.

If the hand is so shitty... do I even have to ask the obvious? As an glassy eyed Apple fan you've heard it in response to every tired wingnut post you've ever written... why do so many people opt for it. That's really the underlying issue in every Apple fans posts. Insecurity.

Give YOU something new or get out of the ballgame? Who are you Yogi Berra? And who are you trying to convince, yourself? You wouldn't buy the cure for cancer from MS if it cost a nickel. Don't like it don't buy it NO ONE IS FORCING YOU and frankly no one will care.

Chris. Take a quick step back for perspective ok. in spite of what Apple and engadget might tell you Apple is the number one supplier of DRM media. Apple adds DRM to media on itunes even when a record company DOESN'T require it. So if Jobs didn't like DRM he didn't have to put it in some of the media already on itunes. Sorry but that makes him a lier and a hypocrite.

Frankly engadget's game is obvious. It's lazy but it's a popularity game and much of the media plays it. Apple fans are incredibly vocal and persistent and the media gets immediate gratification by pandering to them. Want to see real unfettered bias look at Wired.com.

They have a regular 'Cult of Mac' column and a recent article entitled 'Why Apple Makes me Cry" is fairly typical. Their main page regualrly has literally had 6 or 8 Apple articles at once. And right now they have an article up entitled "Gallery: Blue Screen of Death" in their own words "In honor of Vista's release"


They claim to be tech news but they look more like the Apple newsletter.

There's keith waddington everyone. The crowning achievement of what the WSJ called a marketing company that also does computers.

That study you guys love to quote Mr. Wad is a prime example of just how low you are. Take any two items where one costs more than the other and you'll find the same statistic. But because you can't tell cause from effect you see it as something to brag about.

But what you're bragging about is that you can afford a more expensive toy than say inner city kids, single mothers and essentially all poor people who would fall into the 90% of people who don't buy Macs.

While I'm certain you and Steve look down on those people for not being able to afford Apple toys I'm personally happy that there is a less expensive option for people and we don't have to live in an Appleworld where only self-righteous self-absorbed elitist snobs can afford computers.

Good going Mr. Wad you just spit in the eye of poor people. Steve will be so proud.

Man, engadget. Just not getting a lot of traction with the MS hating today. Maybe you could try the Aple worshiping again with another "Jobs last to join the party in opposing DRM" article.

"how many pirated versions of mac os x do you see....." Um since almost all Macs are sold in the US who outside the US would want it? Mac has less than 1% marketshare in any country outside the US and doesn't have much even in the US but I guess that's your point since people only pirate what people want.

"Did you actually read the article? Jobs points out that only 3% of music on IPods is Fairplay DRMed"

Really? And he knows that how? Do you kowtow nightly and present the holy iCon to his grace for inspection? itune$ is the main supplier of DRM media bar none. And for his Joblyness to now say 'oh it's so bad what THOSE people are doing" is just putrid regurgitated hogwash.

Ya know what edgore as big a tool as RIAApple and engadget are at least they're doing it for a reason. It's purely for profit but at least they have a reason. You're just self deluded along with others tossing their money at RIAApple and trying to rationalize it because you think it makes you look cool. If DRM hadn't been successful it wouldn't exist and people like you slurped up the DRM and begged for more while RIAApple supplied it and websites like engadget pushed it.

So for any of you to now cry about DRM is just hypocrisy. Apple fans, Jobs and engadget should go sit in the corner and shut up about DRM because you're the problem NOT the solution.

It sounds like RIAApple is simply throwing a bone to the glassy eyed RIAApple minions who've just now starting to figure out that they're buying DRMed media. Now that Jobs has finished the west wing of his palace with itune$ DRM he looks down from the ramparts at the peasants and says "maybe someone else should take off the chains I sold."

RIAApple fans love to bash other company's for following in RIAAple's DRM footsteps but it was their own idol and savior that first got in bed with RIAA pulled up the covers and snuggled close. And not long after RIAApple gave birth to the posterchild for the success of DRM, itunes.

My god and what self-aggrandizing tools engadget writers are. Welcome to the party engadget where have you been? Oh I remember you were busy talking out both sides of your mouth. Decrying DRM out one side and praising the biggest supplier of it out the other.

Alexander Ponosov is Russian authority's high profile demonstration that they're doing something about piracy. Russia started the piracy crackdown as part of its efforts to join the WTO so I doubt they would stop for anyone.

So the idea was to make life miserable for some poor subway worker? Brilliant. That'll teach those guys.

Get yer ass down there and clean off that ad.

"It is great that they've settled but this will never change the fact that Steve Jobs just could never come up with an original idea."

That's one of those nail on the head award comments. I swear RIApple whines so much that people are stealing their ideas that it has to be a diversion so no one will notice that they almost never have an original idea.. The idea for every RIAApple product came from somewhere else. I'm not saying they could 'never' come up with an original idea but it's pretty darned rare.