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Ska bli intressant att följa detta. Det var Universal som bidrog till att göra Microsoft Zune oanvändbar genom att låsa ner den med antipirat teknik och sedan krävde 1 dollar per Zune i ersättning.

Daring Fireball: I’m Not Sure NBC Could Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse

There’s a lot of jackassery to pick apart in this short statement from NBC Universal executive vice president Cory Shields, responding to Apple’s “don’t let the door hit you on the way out, idiots” statement yesterday, but I’ll focus on this curious tidbit for now:

In addition, we asked Apple to take concrete steps
to protect content from piracy, since it is estimated that the typical
iPod contains a significant amount of illegally downloaded material.

Love that passive voice: “it is estimated”. Estimated by whom? Based on what evidence? This is straight out of the music industry’s playbook: assume your customers are criminals and treat them with contempt.

It echoes the curious-but-way-too-short-on-details final paragraph of this Associated Press story on the NBC/Apple rift yesterday:

NBC Universal also wants iTunes to stiffen
anti-piracy provisions so computer users would not have easy access to
illegal downloads.

I’d love to hear more about exactly what NBC wants Apple to
do, but the only two things I can think of are (a) disallowing iPods
and iPhones from playing anything other than DRM-protected video; and
(b) adding spyware features to iTunes to search for and attempt to
identify bootleg video files on users’ computers. Needless to
say, it’s no wonder Apple told them to go fuck themselves.