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Playing devil's advocate here, but what's the media store like on your typical Linux distribution? The reason Apple has to go to such draconian measures is to p
by Osmium 14y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, but what's the media store like on your typical Linux distribution? The reason Apple has to go to such draconian measures is to please their content providers. Without doing so, you wouldn't have an iTunes store with such a wide variety of content.
Apple's margins from content sales are slim; they push content to sell devices. As they've shown with music in the past, they'll get rid of DRM if the content providers allow it. So it's not entirely fair to blame Apple for that one.
- njharman 14y ago> typical media store There are several BitTorrent clients to choose from!
- caf 14y agoThe content providers seem happy with iTunes running on Windows without such protection.
- pyre 14y agoWhen Apple first signed on the labels, iTunes didn't run on Windows. Do we know when these protections first showed up? Was it Apple's way of appeasing the labels before they gained enough mass that the labels couldn't ignore them?
- caf 14y agoI don't know about the debug protections, but according to Wikipedia's timeline, it was only a matter of 6 months between iTunes Store appearing and iTunes becoming available for Windows.
- desas 14y agoThe amazon store is pretty goood
- adambyrtek 14y ago7digital[1] is great for music, and they don't use any DRM. [1] http://www.7digital.com/ http://www.7digital.com/