According to one of their rivals, the Apple I plod (
) is roughly filled with 50% of "Stolen" content.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/11/half_ipod_music_stolen_real_says/Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser has tacitly alleged that iPod owners are music thieves, a claim that echoes the words of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Both companies compete directly with Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Back in October 2004, Ballmer was reported to have said: "The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'." The comment came not long after Microsoft launched its Windows Media-based Plays For Sure initiative to align the various digital music providers and player makers who have adopted the WMA DRM format
Glaser's real beef with the iPod is its lack of interoperability, despite the fact that his company provides a DRM translation tool that allows songs downloaded from Real's Rhapsody music store in the US to be played on iPods.
"The music industry has made a mistake, not by agreeing to Apple's fixed-price level, which is what gets all the attention, but by allowing Apple to create devices that are not interoperable," Glaser said.
I think the public should be spared any more diatribes from people such as this,
Once again we see them pushing their own interests ahead of the slowly diminishing rights of the consumer and to read this bitch fight over why they cant have a slice of Apples cake is a sick joke.
Big business is going to have to decide and hold firm on a single format for once as the public are fed up with the constant format changes that only serve to benefit the vested business interests whom seem only to wish to resell you the same product many times under each new format.
