Our digital future? "Apple Stole my Music"

[Erik_Twice]

Apparently, Apple is now scanning and then deleting and/or replacing the music you have on your own hardrive independenly of how it was obtained based on difuse "Terms of service" wording and even more difuse synchronization options.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/ ... seriously/

Unless the EU outlaws this kind of stuff and (being filled by technophobic old politicians), it won't, I think this is the future of not just music but all kind of digital content. And specially games, because this kind of underhanded stuff is becoming more and more common each day.

Thoughts?

[fastbilly1]

We are going back to SAAS but this time it is all monitored and controlled. Who needs local storage when you have the cloud?

[Pulsar_t]

Their iShit ecosystem smelled fishy to me from day one, which is why I never got an Apple product (never will). It's people's fault for supporting Apple, not the other way around, since nobody forced anybody to get their overpriced junk.

[isiolia]

I half suspect it's more something Apple was obligated to do for some reason or another. Kind of similar to some of the other restrictions that get placed by them.

That said, it's something that would keep me off the service, were I looking at using it (I'm not). I do wonder if it's an option to toggle though. iTunes has long had an option to let it manage your music, which would have it move a file you dragged into where you'd set the iTunes library to be, organized under whatever folder iTunes discerned for it (heavily reliant on ID3 tags).
There was a time that I tried having iTunes do that, so I could then share the library out on my home network and so on. I wound up reverting it from backups because (amazingly ) not all of my files were perfectly tagged, so it just made a mess.

You don't have to let iTunes do that though, and I never have again (or used iTunes for much in general, for that matter).

There are examples of going the other direction too though. Like, there are tons of CDs on Amazon I can buy the physical disc, and immediately get the option to download the MP3s (and I think stream it to boot, idk, I don't do much music streaming).

[prfsnl_gmr]

overpriced junk.

I have an iPad and an iPhone. I like them.

[Exhuminator]

Their iShit ecosystem smelled fishy to me from day one, which is why I never got an Apple product (never will). It's people's fault for supporting Apple, not the other way around, since nobody forced anybody to get their overpriced junk.

Stone cold truth.

[noiseredux]

overpriced junk.

I have an iPad and an iPhone. I like them.

you can like overpriced junk.

[nullPointer]

Yeah, I've never been a huge fan of the cult of Apple (mostly I'm cheap and have never seen the value in paying extra "Apple tax" based on the brand name alone).

In a broader sense, I'm also reminded of the dust up in 2014 when Rockstar released a "patch" for GTA III: San Andreas that removed licensed music from digital copies of the game. I understand that the license agreement had run out for certain songs, but it was still in effect when I purchased the game. Based on that, I think it would have been more sensible to simply remove the tracks from future purchases of the game moving forward ... but, really what the hell do I know, lol. I'm not a lawyer.

Still though, it's a slippery slope. Where is the line to be drawn in terms what content can be removed from a game after purchase? And in the grand scheme of things where is the line to be drawn between acceptable use and consumer rights when it comes to digital content? (Probably buried in the EULA )

Oh well at least with PC versions of GTA III: San Andreas it was a fairly elementary exercise to simply patch the missing tracks right back into the game.

[Tanooki]

overpriced junk.

I have an iPad and an iPhone. I like them.

I've got an iPhone5S here, but I do NOT have iTunes installed because of it's cancerous tentacles that loop through windows and the garbage they force to load at start up.

To get music, video, ringtones, pictures and other useful stuff on/off there I'll plug into my laptop and use the Copytrans Control Center. The FREE version alone allows this but there are paid components that will do pretty much anything iTunes does, far better, and without moving crap around with each version release to hide stuff too. The one thing it can't do is manage app store stuff, but given how locked down that is anyway who cares, it's on the phone itself.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Buy records, cassettes, and CDs.

Buy DRM-less Atari and Intellivision games.