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Recently, MSN published an article concerning changes in the way online music is being distributed and the disagreements between Apple and the music industry. The industry wants songs to be DRM encumbered, while Apple does not. Also the industry wishes for Apple to raise prices, while Apple – for obvious competitive reasons – favors lowering prices.
First of all, I want to wish everyon a Merry Christmas or appropriate greeting for your winter-time holiday. However, the main point of this post is that I am getting really sick of Christmas music and am thankful that either tomorrow or 11 more days from now it will all go away. I am, of course, talking about the endless loop of Yuletide cheer coming from my radio.
I knew that Comcast was considering putting a cap on monthly bandwidth used by their customers, but today I found out that they are really going through with it. According to Kim Peterson on MSN’s moneyblog, the new limits will approximately 6000 songs per month to be downloaded. (ed. Comcast’s faq lists 62500 songs, not the 6000 that I read elsewhere.)
I just read Miles Moen’s article on illegal music downloading and I have to agree with his assessment. If ISPs start tracking users’ behaviour too much and penalize them for activities that are illegal in many jurisdictions, users will switch to ISPs that do not pay as much attention. Many ISPs are willing to either not monitor or ignore online activity if it causes them to gain new customers or, at least, keep their existing customers.
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Why is it that iTunes cannot get the correct album art for CDs? I am not complaining about the times when it cannot find any album art, just the times when it gets the wrong album art.