Given Apple's stance against DRM (digital rights management), I think
they've really limited their copy protection for this sort of thing.
Apple has really been pushing the "digital lifestyle" with their products
and concepts of fair use with copyrighted material (such as the "Rip, Mix,
Burn" ad campaign). They seem to be taking the stance that if you own a
legitimate copy of something that you should have the right to copy all or
part of it for personal use.
Apple is taking the stance that people want to be able to take a song from a
CD, make an MP3 of it and put it into a playlist on their computer with
other songs from other CDs. Not to mention then download those files onto a
portable MP3 player, take it to work and play it there, etc.
They're taking the stance that copying copyrighted material isn't
infringement, it's unauthorised distribution of that copyrighted material
that is. That's what copyright law USED to say and it's what the RIAA and
MPAA are desperately trying to change.
Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] more on videodisks
> Does iMac defeat the DVD copyguard? If so, Jack Valenti, FTC etc. would
> love to hear about it.
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