Comments on: Believing Steve Jobs http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/ The official AllPeers blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Jos http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49678 Jos Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:41:39 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49678 Wow, Roger, that's a bit extreme isn't it? Why all the hate for Norway? The wikipedia article about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" rel="nofollow">Norway</a> makes them out to be pretty on top of things - they have the "second highest GDP per-capita" in the world, and the "highest position in the World on the UNDP Human Development Index". Doesn't sound like a county of "ignorant, capitalism-hating socialists" to me! peace Wow, Roger, that’s a bit extreme isn’t it? Why all the hate for Norway?

The wikipedia article about Norway makes them out to be pretty on top of things - they have the “second highest GDP per-capita” in the world, and the “highest position in the World on the UNDP Human Development Index”. Doesn’t sound like a county of “ignorant, capitalism-hating socialists” to me!

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]]> By: Blinx http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49634 Blinx Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:27:21 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49634 Why impose limitations on a real buyer - the one paying for your products? Any pirate worth a pinch of salt would prefer to rip/download a CD at 192 to 320 kbps. An iTS customer is not such a pirate, after all, he's paying for 128 kbsp in AAC format. Imposing DRM on an iTS customer is illogical. The same goes for subscription services, where, presumably, the quality is even worse. Where a subscription service streams high quality files, yes, DRM could be useful because customers ripping high-quality files from a subscription service - if any such exist - would make a mockery of the service. Why impose limitations on a real buyer - the one paying for your products? Any pirate worth a pinch of salt would prefer to rip/download a CD at 192 to 320 kbps. An iTS customer is not such a pirate, after all, he’s paying for 128 kbsp in AAC format. Imposing DRM on an iTS customer is illogical.

The same goes for subscription services, where, presumably, the quality is even worse. Where a subscription service streams high quality files, yes, DRM could be useful because customers ripping high-quality files from a subscription service - if any such exist - would make a mockery of the service.

]]> By: roger http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49632 roger Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:21:41 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49632 It wouldn't do any good to give the facts to Norway. These people are ignorant, capitalism-hating socialists who resent corporate success of any kind and will ignore any facts that fail to support their belief that any company that creates value and wealth must have cheated. It wouldn’t do any good to give the facts to Norway. These people are ignorant, capitalism-hating socialists who resent corporate success of any kind and will ignore any facts that fail to support their belief that any company that creates value and wealth must have cheated.

]]> By: Tom Barta http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49629 Tom Barta Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:25:13 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/02/14/believing-steve-jobs/#comment-49629 "Seen in this light, it’s easy to imagine what was going through Jobs’s head. Apple was originally against DRM but was forced into it by the record labels. Now that it is perceived as having engineered the whole situation in order to sew up the market for online music, it is suddenly finding itself the primary target of the anti-DRM crowd." Wonderful insight! You should e-mail your post to those overzealous prosecuters in Norway. “Seen in this light, it’s easy to imagine what was going through Jobs’s head. Apple was originally against DRM but was forced into it by the record labels. Now that it is perceived as having engineered the whole situation in order to sew up the market for online music, it is suddenly finding itself the primary target of the anti-DRM crowd.”

Wonderful insight! You should e-mail your post to those overzealous prosecuters in Norway.

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