{"id":182,"date":"2004-06-16T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/itunes\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T00:23:00","slug":"itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> has been launched in the UK France and Germany so I downloaded it to have a look. I do appreciate what Apple are trying to do but for me the the DRM on the downloads makes it useful for one thing: Finding cool online radio stations! I&#8217;m just not happy about buying music files which have so many restrictions on them. Once I&#8217;ve bought the music I expect to be able to do whatever I want with it providing I&#8217;m not breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that wasn&#8217;t really worth a 20mb download&#8230; hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">EFF<\/a> web site regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/share\/\">file sharing<\/a> but I&#8217;m not sure all of their ideas are really all that well thought out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen an amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/brianflemming\/iblog\/movies\/PEPSI_APPLE_PARODY_LGv2.mov\">video<\/a> about the music industry, although its message is a little&#8230; corrupt. I&#8217;d rather people watched the videos <a href=\"http:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/\">here<\/a>[creative commons]. Creative Commons licenses still need work though, currently none of them are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/social_contract#guidelines\">DFSG-free.<\/a> but we&#8217;re working on that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent today revising maths, watching Gladiator for the first time and doing some web development stuff. Only two weeks including this one to go before exams are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes has been launched in the UK France and Germany so I downloaded it to have a look. I do appreciate what Apple are trying to do but for me the the DRM on the downloads makes it useful for one thing: Finding cool online radio stations! I&#8217;m just not happy about buying music files &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/itunes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}