[ale] ipods under linux

[Jim Philips]

On 07/25/2009 11:04 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> George Carless wrote:
>    
>>>> No flames from this end. I've been watching the same events thinking
>>>> tha Apple has been just egregious in pursuing product lock-in. And
>>>> Palm has become my new hero by taking them on. Think back to the
>>>> time of records. Imagine if Columbia Records had produced vinyl
>>>> records that could only be played on record players produced by
>>>> Columbia. Do you think the people or the courts would have tolerated
>>>> it? I simply will not buy any more Apple products, no matter what
>>>> the "coolness" factor might be. And this applies especially to songs
>>>> on iTunes. The alternative is out there and it's DRM-free music from
>>>> Amazon.
>>>>          
>> Apple's been shifting away from DRM for a good long while, now, and at
>> this point everything on the iTunes store is DRM-free.  Yes, it's AAC
>> and not MP3, but no DRM.  In fact, I would be quite surprised if it
>> didn't turn out that it'd been thanks to Apple's efforts with the labels
>> etc. that had led to the likes of Amazon being able to offer music DRM
>> free.
>>      
> And as I noted earlier, you can burn a cd of any of your iTunes music,
> drop that on your Linux box, convert to drm-free mp3s.
>
>    
All of this just reinforces that fact that Apple forces you to jump 
through hoops to play music you purchased from them if you don't play it 
on their devices. The fact that you know how to jump through the hoops 
doesn't make it an acceptable situation. It was this kind of chicanery 
that brought me to Linux in the first place. I want devices and file 
formats that don't treat me like a child.