@Gordon

What did this article have to do with DRM music files? iTunes was the topic and how it is not open...

Since you did not research the meaning of Proprietary:

Pronunciation: \prə-ˈprī-ə-ˌter-ē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pro·pri·e·tar·ies
Etymology: Middle English propietarie, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin propietarius, from Late Latin, adjective
Date: 15th century
1 : one that possesses, owns, or holds exclusive right to something; specifically : proprietor 1
2 : something that is used, produced, or marketed under exclusive legal right of the inventor or maker; specifically : a drug (as a patent medicine) that is protected by secrecy, patent, or copyright against free competition as to name, product, composition, or process of manufacture
3 : a business secretly owned by and run as a cover for an intelligence organization

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." While there's truth in Plato's words, most of us fall somewhere between good and bad. And for people in that spectrum, laws serve as good deterrents.
Like any other profession, the world of law has its own jargon. Even though legal terms may seem designed to keep laypersons in the dark so that the lawyers can charge hefty fees, there's a need for them. In a field where a single word can make a world of difference, a succinct, and more importantly, unambiguous vocabulary is essential.
May you never have to consult a lawyer (or a barrister, solicitor, attorney, advocate, or whatever they are called in your land), but it's good to know some of the legal jargon. This week we'll summons five of these terms to AWAD.
curtilage
Noun: An area of land encompassing a dwelling and its surrounding yard, considered as enclosed whether fenced or not.
From Old French courtillage, from courtil (garden), from cort (court). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to enclose or grasp) that is also the source of such words as orchard, kindergarten, French jardin (garden), choir, courteous, Hindi gherna (to surround), yard, and horticulture.
"Obtaining a licence to step out beyond the curtilage of the site was critical to the feasibility of this concept."
Rob Gregory; 10 Hills Place; Architects' Journal (London, UK); Sep 10, 2009.
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. -Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist (1802-1885)
“Give me the mike”. “Yes, but can you stand the heat?”
WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR from behavioural analysis technology, according to Stewart Hefferman, the chief technology officer of UK biometrics company OmniPerception.
Hefferman reckons that all this hand wringing over the Beeb's Big Brother is watching you shop article is nothing more than a load of cobblers.
"The boundary between personalised data and behavioural information is blurred in the article and this tends to sensationalise the content in an unhelpful way," chanted Hefferman.
He admits that while the technology is capable of encroaching on civil liberties and tracking individuals on a mass level, it would never be allowed to happen as the powers that be are far too upstanding to exploit that.
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla

Where is the link to the ad nick?

DVD Jon is the reason I can enjoy and back up DVD's on my Linux computer systems (and others use his dvdcss in Windows for the same thing: backing up, or transferring DVD's to a media server for house-wide viewing). Compare this to Job's, who only relented and removed DRM from iTunes when it looked as though popular opinion would transfer "his" business elsewhere.

The RIAA, MPAA, and other media goons are Job's and Ballmer's buddies. According to this group, we have no rights to the media that we purchase, and need to buy expensive computer systems and pay the cost of the electrical power for them to run Vista/Win7 constant DRM scanners (OSX is slightly less evil than Windows in this case, only because Jobs is having some success in ramming iTunes down lots of people's throats as a ubiquitous media player/media purchasing money reliever).

Amarok works great under Linux for me, thanks very much BB Jobs. DVD Jon has correctly identified the root problem, but allowing more people to give their money to Jobs' wallet I don't think is the answer. I think that artists should just sell their own songs by direct download, and cut all the media company fat cats (including Apple) out of the equation (could donate part of the proceeds to charity instead of fattening billionaires' wallets any further, or paying for their lawyer-squads to sue single moms, kids, etc.).

Yuck! why switch over if the thing look just like itune? well, ok I would if it is less a ram pig, ressources monster than apple's crap (I don't see how it could be worst really...)

however... does it support ipod 6th gen? because no other piece of software (itune aside) did before.

... my iPod with free music from Jamendo, using Winamp.
How much more of a choice do you need? Or do alternatives only count if Apple advertises them? Do you want someone to pull a EC on Apple and demand ballot screen?
If I had bought songs from the iTunes Store, they'd be DRM-free or I could simply upgrade them to be. Then I can convert them to any format I want and put them on any player I want.
Try that with the playsnotsosurely-crap you bought from long-gone music shops.

Screw em both. Flac is open sauce and lossless.

It's alright we told you what not to rhyme

Welcome my son, ... to the machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLrNgImm88

A whole article about an ad and not even link to it?

You seem to share the Ferret's lack of research skills.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.

AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications

MP3 is a proprietary format. Companies selling players or encoding software need to license it.
AAC is part of the MP4 spec, and is licensable in exactly the same way. Many, if not most, current portable media players will play AAC.

Apple take about $0.30-0.35 per sale and pass the rest back to the music companies. Music companies then proceed to "assrape" artists over their share of the takings by passing on about $0.10 of the remaining $0.64-0.69 to them. They do the same for sales via Amazon and any other music store. Who's getting the biggest share?

How does this make the Amazon Music Store any better?

Steve T:

AAC is still a proprietary format.

iTune's syncing is not for everyone. A lot of people dislike and outright hate iTune's interface as well for music handling.

Not everyone likes how apple assrape's artists for the cost of the song either, and don't want to support Apple in this way.

between iTunes, which is linked to the iTunes store, or doubleTwist (which looks quite a lot like iTunes) that is linked to Amazon's music store.

Blackberry owners can already synch with iTunes. They've got a little app that does things properly and reads the XML file that Apple provide for the purpose. If Palm stop acting like jackasses they can do the same thing themselves.

So what it comes down to is which store do you prefer, audio quality (AAC @256K is better than MP3 @320K) and if you can get your device to synch with iTunes or not. Anything beyond that is just marketing hyperbole .

"One salient difference between Jobs and Johansen is that DVD Jon does not have legions of black shirted fanboys screaming at people that he is good."

Uh, you talking about St. Eve of Jobs, or the other maniacal meglomaniac, dear Adolph?

The music store has been DRM free for a long time now.

Research:

Noun

* S: (n) research (systematic investigation to establish facts)
* S: (n) inquiry, enquiry, research (a search for knowledge) "their pottery deserves more research than it has received"

Verb

* S: (v) research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner) "The student researched the history of that word"
* S: (v) research, search, explore (inquire into) "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"

Might want to try it some time

How can he dare... My Master will punish him dearly! I'd give my liver to my Master if it could help Him.

Praise Steve Jobs

Praise Apple

Death to heresy

Soon the solar system shall be controlled by multitouch OS X - even the sun will tremble!!!!

While I admire the work of DVD Jon, I must say that his software does not work with iPhone's software 3.0 which renders it useless for me and many others.