Re: DRM can bite my ass

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: DRM can bite my ass
Date: 00:50 on 11 Jul 2006
> What I'm assuming happened here is that my iPod, named 'wee' (what?
> it *is*!), had some sort of sympathetic bond with my old laptop,
> "shiny."  It liked shiny.  It was evidently involved in a fiercely
> monogamous relationship with shiny.

That's the problem...  you're assuming that your iPod knows what "faithful"
means.

It doesn't. Your iPod is utterly promiscuous and will fall right into an
intimate relationship with any computer you plug it into.  it'll accept
that computer's bodily fluids as its own.

That's why I never let iTunes get into that kind of relationship. I just copy
stuff over. That's one problem with bigger iPods. It becomes more practical
to just let it become a kind of appendage to iTunes instead of copying over
the stuff you really want.

DRM is guilty of plenty of hateful behaviour, this however is something the
iPod does all by itself.

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