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It's a consumer's right to transfer and play digital content bought and downloaded from the Internet to the music device he himself chooses to use," added Thon. "iTunes makes this impossible or at least difficult, and hence, they act in breach of Norwegian law."

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Originally posted by JRude:

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Tweens wont strip the DRM out. They will just buy the new Dual Nano iPod with Self-destructing batteries and keep buying those iTunes! lol!

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"It's a consumer's right to transfer and play digital content bought and downloaded from the Internet to the music device he himself chooses to use,"

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"It's a consumer's right to transfer and play digital content bought and downloaded from the Internet to the music device he himself chooses to use," added Thon. "iTunes makes this impossible or at least difficult, and hence, they act in breach of Norwegian law."

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Originally posted by Tashammer:

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It comes up in many and diverse forms all over the place and time and time again other people fight to stop the avalanche of greed. Call it what you will but it's just once bunch of greedy buggers trying to get the edge over another bunch of greedy buggers so that we the people whether we want to be consumers or nor are forced into becoming consumers and then are screwed even further into being screwed even more.

And the folks who "represent" us in government, the spoiliticians, funnily enough end up helping big business, screwing the voters and gaining for themselves a whacking great pension plus numerous positions on boards that keeps the gravy rolling in.

The trouble is that if you stay quiet and keep your mouth shut, they just stand on your face, call you a terrorist and chop away more rights whilst getting everything little last red cent they can AND these vultures are the ones who are screaming that they are the ones who have been hard done by. Lets face it business doesn't care that they lack Kulturny. Nor do they realise that they cannot buy culture either.

What a terrific way of avoiding the development of a warm and mutually helpful species that is honest enough to have a little war now and again, a police action from time to time, because, lets face it, we, as a species are a bloodthirsty little lot.

Hmm. How about International Social Service, National Social Service, Local Social Service of one or two years duration and in the order given. With each period served the more access to out societies we gain access to with no exemptions medical or otherwise. As a teeny weeny little matter where wealth or political pressure is brought to bear to get an offspring off their social service. Guess what we could do? Maybe instant enlisting for all the family and whoever else in the closest most bloody war. The seizing of all assets etc to be used for what, maybe community wellbeing. Oh, this would include lawyers etc who prostitute their mouths daily.

Do we all see how this relates to DRM, good ombudsmen?


Oh the types of social service would include civil and military, farming, take your pick from the green guides to making the planet well again. As we make other thing better we cant help but improve ourselves (whether we want to or not). But, by the same token if we do stuff day after day that also becomes a self perpetuating nasty little system. China has had some good ideas for mass civil service - have a look at the size of some of the damns and other massive physical constructions that were made primarily by manual labour.

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