Re: DRM can bite my ass

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From: sabrina downard
Subject: Re: DRM can bite my ass
Date: 13:29 on 04 Dec 2006
On 7/10/06, sabrina downard <viv@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Dear Apple:
[snip]
> Okay.  Whatever.  I have that album on this laptop and I don't know
> why you're whinging about it anyways, as I didn't ask you to "copy"
> anything.  'Cos it was already *there* and all.  But whatever, I
> didn't want to listen to that band at the moment (and I can always go
> type in my stupid iTunes Music Store password if I did).  I want to
> listen to those new MP3s......hey, WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?

Hah!  I figured out how to experience this in an even more annoying
fashion.  (I never learn.)

Step 1:  Buy shiny new laptop with latest, greatest, et cetera.
Step 2:  Copy entire iTunes music library over from external fw disk
to new laptop.
Step 3:  Copy an old 'iTunes Library' data file that's six months out
of date (the one off the firewire disk rather than from ~ on old
laptop)
Step 4:  Fail to notice that although all your music is actually
present, iTunes doesn't know about anything after that old data file
Step 5:  Plug in iPod Shuffle because its battery needs charging --
and you figure that it won't destroy any data on it because hey, this
is *exactly the same music repository* as from the other laptop, from
which it was loaded
Step 6:  'iPod update is complete.'  No warning that it's going to
destroy my data!  Awesome, it must have worked.  <--- This is the
point where I never, ever, *ever* clue in that having hope is the
first step towards disappointment.
Step 7:  Click on iPod in iTunes.  Realize that half the music is
gone.  Again, all deleted files were unprotected MP3s.  The stuff that
was missing was the stuff that was newer than the iTunes Library file.
Step 8:  flail ineffectually and make obscene gestures in the general
direction of California.
Step 9:  click File -> Add to Library, select the stupid damn
Music/iTunes folder.
Step 10:  reload what it deleted onto iPod.

stupid iTunes.  stupid iPod.  stupid Apple.  stupid half-assed
attempts at DRM that are neither effective, efficient, or CORRECT.

--s, who detests being assumed to be a de facto thief just because she
uses files in a particular format.

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