Fud, Fud and Fud et al

[david thornton]

paul sutton wrote:

> With the all-you-can eat model, we think this becomes compelling when 
> paired with discovery," Jubelirer said, referring to the sharing of 
> music between Zunes. "With a couple of buddies who own Zunes, you can 
> grow and expand your musical tastes and collection far beyond what you 
> previously imagined."
>
> It seems the potential for abuse and sharing of copyrighted material 
> is here at last,  condoned by microsoft,   It's going to happen,  and 
> I hope the Music association of america (or what ever they are 
> called),  aim their lawsuits at MIcrosoft  and not the people just 
> taking advantag of this,  what about security,
>
> perhaps this is a reason apple left out this feature,  to stop such 
> abuses. 
> Ok time to concentrate and promote what Linux is good at,   there are 
> plenty of 3rd party mp3 players out there,  Amarok works with mp3 
> players,  so we asa a community need to promote the interoperability 
> with these devices, and perhaps ipods,  it will be interesting to see 
> if it's possible to use zunes with Linux.  Not that I would buy one 
> and give Microsoft more money of course.
>
> Paul
> -- 
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

you can share tunes "with your buddies" using itunes, you can't take a 
copy for your self , but you can share. Dunno if that's a violation. 
IANAL (I am not a lawyer)
and sometimes IORAL (I only resemble a lampshade)
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists