4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:10848371-eb6e-4a33-
a153-5a9d869da2a1@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
> Larry where do you get the theory that the iPod is locked. I
can put
> my audio on an iPod and I can copy it off the iPod to another
> computer. I dare say there are at least thousands that can do
the same
> thing.
>
>
My parameters are quite simple.....
Can this player, whatever player, be plugged into any USB port,
and loaded with any simple file manager of any files on the
drives, then played without hacking or begging the player to play
them? Then, can this player, plugged into ANY other USB port on
any other computer, copy or move these files to that computer,
using that computer's simplest of file managers, without
destroying the file or refusing to copy/move certain types of
files.
There's no reason to buy a player that must be hacked to play ANY
file. If that company, any company, chooses to hobble its
equipment in cooperation with RIAA or MPAA or USGA (the golf
people) or NASCAR or USMC, they do not want our business. I only
buy from companies who have MY interest at heart. MY interest is
to be able to play ALL the files, ALL the time. I'm sure yours
are, too.
I don't drive cars under the remote control of some cops. I
certainly am not going to drive electronic entertainment devices
under similar remote controls by the music cops.
If a majority of the music listeners would simply refuse to buy
this shit.....it would all go away. I don't know how old you are
or how long you've been playing with PCs, but we went through a
terrible period where every program you were licensed to play had
this goddamned "dongle" that had to be plugged into all the other
dongles on a serial port to make SURE you didn't steal it. Lots
of them simply wouldn't play, dongle or no dongle. The computer-
buying public had had enough. It stopped buying ANY programs
that required some kind of hardware or software key before the
program would run. Software companies went down the tubes for a
while until they FINALLY got the message we, the computer public,
wasn't going to put up with their shit. Software suddenly, as
they starved for cash, came out without the protective nonsense.
I think Billy Gates, multi-billionaire, is feeling this effect
with his new electronic-dongled Vista OS, right now! I'm one who
won't buy it. I didn't buy XP for years because of its locks. I
don't buy software with dongles of any kind, either....no matter
how wonderful it is.....
We're going to see another dongle period very soon. The FCC, in
cooperation with the media money mongers, has allowed them to put
dongles in all your new, wonderful digital TVs! Isn't that
wonderful? Every TV is as addressable as your cable modem. Even
the over-the-air broadcasters, who like the AMPS carriers never
had control of what system your AMPS phone would connect to until
these PRL dongles were invented, has individually-addressable
control of your new TV...right over its transmitter. Wanna watch
the Dallas game on HDTV? Call 1-800-Feed-Me-Money and have your
credit card ready! This is coming, people, PAY OVER-THE-AIR
BROADCASTING they wanted since Dumont put the knobs on the front.
You don't think NASCAR and NFL are going to let you watch it for
free, do you? Not if they can help it.
No ZUNE or other "them" machines, here. No thank you! You still
have a choice....please choose freedom.
We'll now hear from the Sheeple side of the newsgroups....(c;
Larry
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