Reply With QuoteApple never lose - they will think up some other vindictive way of locking people in.
It's true. Apple lost.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... ir-use.arsEvery three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.
This time, the Library went (comparatively) nuts, allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be "fair use," and letting consumers crack their legally purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.
Apple never lose - they will think up some other vindictive way of locking people in.
They "lost" for years!
Never win - same as Microsoft et al.Originally Posted by Dazzler
Same as down loading MP3's, file sharing etc. - the sheer volume and will to overcome will always win.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
onwards and upwards :wink:
In the USA, not necessarily anywhere else.
Yup - no real difference in any case, since they're hardly taking many people to court to stop them.In the USA, not necessarily anywhere else.
Hard to see who it really hurts at this point. The miserable quality of cellular data means that any of the over-the-top services that operators are scared about are years away being a mass market proposition. For Apple it's effectively irrelevant since they're phasing out exclusivity in Europe and in the States only AT&T and T-Mobile use compatible OTA technology. I suspect the only reason they fought it was to keep AT&T sweet, but who knows, they're hardly the most talkative of companies when it comes to strategy!
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