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On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:35:34AM -0600, sabrina downard wrote:
> except that, IMO, the only justification for setting up the
> destroy-by-default synchronization scheme -- which is, as other
> posters note, contrary to general practice synching other gadgets --
> is that they assume their users are *necessarily* infringing copyright
> if they turn up with an MP3 on their iPod that isn't on the computer
> that it's plugged into.
Your failure to see any alternative does not prove that there is no
alternative, merely that you lack imagination.
They assume that you only sync your iPod with one computer (true, for
almost all users). They assume that if you remove something from your
computer then it should be removed from the iPod (also true for almost
all users, for whom the iPod is merely a portable iTunes). Both of
those assumptions seem pretty sensible to me.
In any case, iTunes does *not* synchronise MP3s (or AACs, or AIFFs, or
$flavour_of_the_month). It synchronises playlists. If I remove
"Blitzkrieg Bop" from all the playlists that I've told iTunes to sync to
my iPod, then it seems pretty damned reasonable to me that the file
would get removed from the iPod.
> it's "rights management." i first enountered the data deletion (and
> posted the original post in the "DRM can bite my ass" thread) when i
> was just trying to recharge my shuffle, and plugged it into a handy
> USB port one day, not expecting that it was going to do anything other
> than mooch electrons.
From what I remember, the default is to *not* automatically synchronise
when you plug the thing in, but to synchronise if you run iTunes when
the thing is plugged in. So I rather think that someone told the
machine to do that.
> it's just all very hateful software behavior, though i'll grant that
> it's almost certainly inspired by policy which is not entirely apple's
> fault. still, if they are going to give in to the man, they really
> ought to give me a dialogue box which says plainly that my iPod is
> going to be reformatted.
Re*formatted*?
--
David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"
I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files.
I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have
a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby.
-- Fritz Anderson
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