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iCloud stores non-DRM copies of music on your devices, right? And iTunes Match songs get all the same privileges as stuff you buy from iTunes, right? So, how ca
by extension 15y ago
iCloud stores non-DRM copies of music on your devices, right? And iTunes Match songs get all the same privileges as stuff you buy from iTunes, right? So, how can Apple "control your music"? Can they delete files you store locally? Or prevent you from sharing them on The Pirate Bay?
- ryusage 15y agoNo, the whole point of the iCloud service is that the music is stored on Apple's servers. It sounds like it is then synced from their servers to your devices. So presumably, if they wanted to, they could remove or block your access to particular files on their server, and have your local copies of those files deleted on the next sync. I'm not sure how likely that is to ever actually happen, though. That sounds a little sensationalistic to me.
- isleyaardvark 15y agoIt's entirely sensationalistic. What's the difference between "Apple could decide which iCloud music you can't have" and "Apple could decide which iTunes songs you can't redownload"? Or "Google could decide which emails in gmail you can't have anymore"? The only realistic danger with iCloud is the same as with any other cloud service: the company accidentally loses your data. Even in that case there's not much danger. You use iTunes match, you download copies of the matches to your local computer, you back them up.
- revicon 15y agoIt's not without precedent. Amazon blew away all local copies of 1984 from Kindles on it's network in 09... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...