[MacDV] Re: iTunes 4.0.1 Has Been Cracked

[Benjamin Ing]

All this hand-wringing over whether the iTunes Music Store will survive 
based on music sharing or not fails to address the most important issue 
... profit.

Bottom line is that if iMS makes money for the record companies, they 
will support it, if it doesn't, they won't. No matter how much the big 
corporate record companies complain about piracy, they still distribute 
through many other online channels with even less security simply 
because they see the profit in it.

The closing of the Internet Sharing is big news, just like every 
security hole in Windows is big news, but I don't see big corporations 
pulling out of Windows because of them.

Ben
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Charles Martin wrote:

> I assume that you are fully aware that, by spreading this information, 
> you are hastening the eventual removal of ALL rendezvous ability out 
> of iTunes, and possibly the failure of the iTunes Music Store.