[iTunes] Re: 4.0 Sharing

[Adam Bass]

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 09:57  AM, Ben Cheng wrote:

> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Terry Pogue wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:38  AM, Eric Irwin wrote:
>>>   I can't see how the future of the Apple Music Store has anything 
>>> to do with this sharing issue.
>>
>> I think the issue is getting the artists/music publisher/producers to 
>> sign up with Apple for thier Music Store. Unless the songs are secure 
>> they won't.
>
> I thought Eric just made pretty clear that the songs being sold 
> through the AMS is secure.  Unless they're going to ask Apple to 
> protect all of their music from CDs which seems silly.  Are they going 
> to ask Apple to remove file sharing from OSX cause I could easily 
> share my library via regular file sharing.
>

Actually the ironic thing is that this sharing feature may have gotten 
more artists/record companies to sign up with the Music Store because 
songs from the Music Store are more secure and cannot be pirated with 
the sharing feature (unless you know the person's password, as Eric 
said).

Adam