Comments on: Siva on INDUCE

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:48:12 +0000

In a terse statement, Apple declared it was “stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod.” The Cupertino, Calif., personal-computer maker said it is “investigating the implications” of RealNetworks’ actions under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws. Apple also implied that it is likely to change its iPod software so that RealNetworks’ technology will no longer work with it. – WSJ

By: Tom Barger

Tom Barger — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:52:24 +0000

See the INDUCE Hearings in their entirety at this link:

http://files.dmusic.com/video/induce.mov

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:59:09 +0000

Regarding RealNetworks:

Since when is adding DRM to content considered circumvention? Sounds more like wishful thinking by people who own Apple stock.

It's not very likely that Real wasted their time reverse engineering Apple's DRM, since someone already did that over 6 months ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/05/itunes_drm_cracked_wide_open/
http://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/vlc/modules/demux/mp4/

By: A.P. Boysen

A.P. Boysen — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:44:51 +0000

Somewhat off topic, but probably of interest to those interested in this:
RealNetworks just developed software to translate music from their format into Apple�s proprietary format, so that those songs can be played on iPods. This has led to speculation (in the Wall Street Journal - see B5 of today�s issue) that RealNetworks may be in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits circumvention of copy-protection technologies. RealNetworks may have violated the law if it cracked Apple�s copy-protection software to figure it out, which seems likely, since it wasn�t licensed from Apple. This could be interesting to follow.

By: Jardinero1

Jardinero1 — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:07:03 +0000

Do you think they might ban eyes. With eyes you can copy just about anything visual. Or maybe they will ban mouths. With mouths you can repeat just about anything. Maybe they will ban hands...

By: A.P. Boysen

A.P. Boysen — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:47:39 +0000

I expect that soon enough we�ll have similar laws to protect the patents on plants that are abounding. If by chance my corn genes mix with your corn genes, or, heaven forbid, you�re the native of some small country I stole the genes from, I�ll sue you! Mwahahaha!