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What you should have been doing (hindsight 20-20 and all that) was quietly going around to the other hundred or so people and getting together on this. Come th
by dmourati 13y ago
What you should have been doing (hindsight 20-20 and all that) was quietly going around to the other hundred or so people and getting together on this. Come through with one legal team representing the newly founded consortium and then negotiate from a position of strength.
Sign the deal, get cash up front, and then begin the drudgery of complying with Apple's byzantine requirements as a group.
- tod222 13y agoYou and only a few other commenters have recognized the abuse of power here: > They said sorry - you need to use this software - there is no other way. It would have been easy for Apple to work with entities such as CD Baby to whip up an alternate method to handle the importation of large catalogs of music. Once specified I'm sure such a trivial web API could be implemented and tested quickly. But Apple and Jobs didn't do this because they knew they had the power to insist that their software be used even though it was only suited for single CD submissions. I find it interesting that many commenters are critical of Sivers while completely overlooking Apple's abuse of power. dmourati not only recognized the abuse of power but recommended a method for meeting it head on.