Choosing Battles Wisely
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John Gruber on Apple’s declining to become the next Napster.
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John Gruber, Daring FireballThus, Apple’s only possible options were to disable Internet sharing in iTunes, or to wage a costly legal battle with the RIAA. It’s absolutely unreasonable to expect Apple to have chosen the latter. Choose your battles wisely, the saying goes, and regardless of righteousness, a P2P battle against the RIAA would be just about the most foolish thing Apple could do.
Did anyone really think wide-area sharing was anything other than, as John says, a “social experiment”? There’s a difference between reconnoitring the terrain and waltzing blindly into the RIAA’s line of fire. One step at a time, folks.
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Posted to Computers • 2003.06.03 (Tue) • 10:47
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Posted by Paul Michael Smith 2003.06.03, 18:50
There is a workaroud so that you can still share if you wish. Checkout http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/osx.asp for how to do it. Most of what you need comes with OSX.
Posted by tomas 2003.06.04, 00:53
I really don’t understand Cory Doctorow’s rant on this issue (see John Gruber’s post). Cory makes it sound like Apple has effectively killed file-sharing on Mac, whereas it’s in the exact same state it was before ITMS entered the stage (plus iTunes sharing within subnets).
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