Sometimes you find people ranting about things they ought to think better.
Some Thomas Hawk puts the following title to his today’s column:
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served
And starts complaining (and mocking people) about the DRM Apple puts in its iTunes music store files.
I thought Everybody knows you can them burn to a CD or to a DVD or whatever, there are many many tools to do the job for you; however, Thomas seems not to. Someone tries to explain this to him in the followups. The only answer he finds is the next magnificent paragraph:
Yes, you can burn them to a CD but once you’ve invested in 10,000 songs how much fun and work is that going to be? And what about all of your metadata that you’ve customized? Will you be able to burn this over and transfer it to your new mp3 file. Admittedly I haven’t tried this but I suspect you might lose customized meta data that you entered. Burning everything to CD and then reripping is time consuming and something that you shouldn’t have to do — better to start with DRM free mp3s in the first place.
And I say: DOES THIS GUY KNOW WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS ABOUT? He speaks at the beginning of the forthcoming “killer phone”
What happens when the killer phone is finally here? You know the one, built in terabyte of storage, lightening fast file transfer speeds, full satellite radio, a breathalyzer, your car and house key, a tiny little thing the size of credit card with a 12 mega pixel camera on it (hey it’s the future right, we can dream). What happens when this phone is out and you really want it and unfortunately Apple didn’t make it? That’s right, you’re a sucker then aren’t you. I thought so. You paid all that good money for your iTunes and now you can’t put them on your new phone because your new phone threatens Apple’s dominance.
But someone who believes in this phone… does not believe you will be able to transfer your music to it, just because of a DRM issue which has already been solved?
Amazing.
BTW: I have never bought anything from Apple. ZERO. Although I do own an iPod… cool tool.
