It's official
We are now free of Apple devices thoughout the house!
I have removed the PC virus that is iTunes and we are now mobile with Android.
The music library is now managed via JRiver Media Center (I have used this for years) and my tunes now come via Amazon and get loaded on to the hand held devices via Media center.
No more of this DRM terrorism that Apple enforces, now I'm not promoting piracy here, but if I buy music, I should be able to listen to it on my devices without having to re-authorise the device or the computer after nearly every upgrade or tweak.
Apples model is all about enslaving users to buy hardware and they enslave the users via the software that supports it and the DRM / encryption schemes tht they employ to stop other developers from accessing the hardware without Apples blessing.
The iCloud is just Apple's next step in building this hardware dependency / addiction. Apple is really going against the ideals of the internet, creating an cloudy intranet that is accessed only via it's devices or Apple software tethering the user to an Apple device. This will trap users and is also going to trap content creators by cutting deals with record companies and other mainstream producers locking them into the murky cloud. This is really taking content off the web and into a monetised walled garden. booo!
If this keeps up, the only content left on the web, After the apples and the Facebooks or the world fence us all in, will be porn and blogs full of people lamenting the dehydration of the internet.
I say no to Piracy
I say yes to the right to choose.
We are now free of Apple devices thoughout the house!
I have removed the PC virus that is iTunes and we are now mobile with Android.
The music library is now managed via JRiver Media Center (I have used this for years) and my tunes now come via Amazon and get loaded on to the hand held devices via Media center.
No more of this DRM terrorism that Apple enforces, now I'm not promoting piracy here, but if I buy music, I should be able to listen to it on my devices without having to re-authorise the device or the computer after nearly every upgrade or tweak.
Apples model is all about enslaving users to buy hardware and they enslave the users via the software that supports it and the DRM / encryption schemes tht they employ to stop other developers from accessing the hardware without Apples blessing.
The iCloud is just Apple's next step in building this hardware dependency / addiction. Apple is really going against the ideals of the internet, creating an cloudy intranet that is accessed only via it's devices or Apple software tethering the user to an Apple device. This will trap users and is also going to trap content creators by cutting deals with record companies and other mainstream producers locking them into the murky cloud. This is really taking content off the web and into a monetised walled garden. booo!
If this keeps up, the only content left on the web, After the apples and the Facebooks or the world fence us all in, will be porn and blogs full of people lamenting the dehydration of the internet.
I say no to Piracy
I say yes to the right to choose.
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