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[The Rambler] Hilary Rosen follow up: Jobs isn't going to open up his system until it makes business sense. Unfortunately, Miss Rosen hasn't provided a single argument as to why it makes good business sense for him to do so. The point that Apple are merely applying a business model - a user-unfriendly one, granted, but one that the music industry has in no small part forced them into - is often missed among the bluster. Most of us music lovers are not against the music industry; we're simply against an industry that makes access to the things we love unreasonably difficult.

[Darknet] Index: Hendricks, Martin Yudkovitz, Stewart Alsop, Benjamin S. Feingold, Adrian Alperovich, Jed Horowitz, Paul Kocher, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Fred von Lohmann, Cory Doctorow, Seth Schoen, Wendy Seltzer, Joe Kraus, Chris Murray, Peter Jaszi, Miriam Nisbet, Henry Jenkins, Emery Simon, Gary Shapiro, Glenn Otis Brown, John Manferdelli, Richard Doherty, Dennis Mudd, Bob Ohlweiler, Edward Felten, Tony Abbott, Jonathan Potter, Michael Miron, Seth Greenstein, Jonathan Zittrain, Andy Wolfe, Lauren Weinstein, Ian Clarke, Cory Ondrejka, Honda Shing, Victor LaCour, Beryl Howell, Jack Driscoll, Andrew Frank, Roger McGuinn, and the underground pirates and file sharers who entrusted me with keeping their identities confidential.

 [Theregister.co.uk] Former RIAA chief goes after Apple's 'anti-consumer' CEO | The ...: (Apple is restrictive about music use with iTunes and is taking a pretty anti-consumer stance on the matter, but, come on, the iPod plays MP3s. We wouldn't need anything more than that if the RIAA wasn't trying to shove DRM down our throats. Having Rosen, even a fake one, write about restrictive, unfriendly anything is like Stalin whinging about a lack of good literature in the Soviet libraries. Speaking of which, be sure to enter our "Biting the Pigopolists" contest before it's too late.

 [Corante.com] Hilary Rosen Laments Apple's DRM Strategy: Corante > Copyfight >: Regardless of whether or not Miss Rosen likes I-Tunes, the real point in all of this is the sheep in this country don't stand up when a court-granted right gets trampled on. Betamax gave us the right to use our legitimately purchased media in any way we see fit, short of selling copies of it. These same sheep didn't stand up in sufficient numbers to derail the DMCA as it was winding its way through Congress, and as a result we are being stripped of our Betamax right.

[Pacanukeha.blogspot.com] It's all about control: Hilary Rosen Laments Apple's DRM Strategy: Yes, that's right, Hilary "You're going to jail, bitch!" Rosen is grumpy about Apple's DRM Strategy. I quote Cory Doctorow:

[Chris.tantramarinteractive.com] Hilary Rosen's At It Again | Christopher Mackay's blog: These are restrictive formats that prevent universal interoperability, too, but apparently Apple is the only company with a moral duty to roll over and play dead the instant they enjoy any success. After all, conventional wisdom dictates that Apple can't possibly succeed.

 [Cdfreaks.com] Former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen criticises Apple's iTunes store - CD ...: If a consumer were to switch from CDs to legal music download services, there is quite a large selection to choose from, such as iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody and Sony Connect just to name a few.  However if the consumer gets an MP3 player, their choice of stores narrows depending on if they would like to take music with them or what formats the player supports.  The former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen has just fallen into this 'trap' after receiving an iPod from a friend as the iPod only officially works with iTunes.

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