29 May 2003
Bullshit Alert

Bullshit alert!

The following article, while it's pretty on target with the business analysis, contains a serious technical half-truth.

Apple did not"disable Rendezvous" - Rendezvous is a networking technology that is content agnostic: it doesn't know if it's streaming pirated music or sharing an Office document. Apple limited the Rendezvous access of a specific program, iTunes, to it's own subnet. This is not a trivial distinction - I can still stream music on my LAN just fine. I just can't stream music over the Internet via iTunes, whioh would not only piss off the RIAA, as the article points out, but which could also cause a serious security concern. I know I always like to know that I'm running a server ....

Apple Finds the Future for Online Music Sales. Apple Computer's new service, iTunes Music Store, has been the first real success story in the long effort to sell music over the Internet. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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