eMusic Wallmart
After last weeks articles on intellectual property, it is almost painful to read through this weeks articles. It seems that the actual concept of intellectual property is left behind, forgotten and what is left are money hungry companies attempting to twist the definition to maintain with an idea that might return a profit. Assuming that all of the accusations Doctorow places on Apple are in fact true, then the idea of intellectual property means nothing. Intellectual property would maintain that the artists and other copyright holders have say in what is done with their music, but in this quote: "innumerable copyright holders have asked Apple to sell their work as open MP2s instead of DRM-locked AACs. Apple has always maintained that it's DRM or nothing." (Doctorow, 3). This in itself I could handle, if the DRMs did only what they were put there to do; to prevent illegal copying. Locking the music to Apple products is too much. I bought an album off of iTunes once when it was getting popular. I bought it for the purpose of listening to from my computer, only to find that I couldn't add the songs to my Windows Media Player library. A wasted ten dollars.