Comments on: The Facts, my Friend, are Blowin’ in the Wind http://www.deadlocked.org/2006/09/03/the-facts-my-friend-are-blowin-in-the-wind/ brainfreeze. in a jar. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: deadlock http://www.deadlocked.org/2006/09/03/the-facts-my-friend-are-blowin-in-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-169 deadlock Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:53:12 +0000 http://www.deadlocked.org/2006/09/03/the-facts-my-friend-are-blowin-in-the-wind/#comment-169 I had hoped to post a comment on <a href="http://www.identityblog.com/?p=561" rel="nofollow">Kim's site</a> in response to the comment above but was unable to do so. Here's what I was going to say: The files <strong>are</strong> locked <em>[this is a reference to Kim's earlier prognosis that the files were locked - Cory determined that this was incorrect and that they couldnt be burned because they are videos]</em>; as I pointed in the post that you linked, my experience is that iTunes will normally burn the audio portion of the video to CD; this has plainly been disabled for these Dylan videos. These videos are not available as audio tracks on any 'molecular' version of "Modern Times" - the Amazon tracklisting appears to have been errant. I understand that the four songs in question are older Dylan tracks and as such probably are available to purchase individually in an audio-only format elsewhere on iTMS. Cory's article is bogus because it is fundamentally factually incorrect and only serves to damage his position on DRM as it relates to iTunes because he has demonstrated a reluctance to do a modicum of research on his own behalf. As I mentioned in my post, Cory is well-known as an anti-DRM/copyleft activist. As to whether or not you should be able to easily burn the audio of these videos to CD using iTunes: that point is very very debatable. After all, you can't easily rip the audio component of the DVD version either. I had hoped to post a comment on Kim’s site in response to the comment above but was unable to do so. Here’s what I was going to say:

The files are locked [this is a reference to Kim's earlier prognosis that the files were locked - Cory determined that this was incorrect and that they couldnt be burned because they are videos]; as I pointed in the post that you linked, my experience is that iTunes will normally burn the audio portion of the video to CD; this has plainly been disabled for these Dylan videos. These videos are not available as audio tracks on any ‘molecular’ version of “Modern Times” – the Amazon tracklisting appears to have been errant.

I understand that the four songs in question are older Dylan tracks and as such probably are available to purchase individually in an audio-only format elsewhere on iTMS. Cory’s article is bogus because it is fundamentally factually incorrect and only serves to damage his position on DRM as it relates to iTunes because he has demonstrated a reluctance to do a modicum of research on his own behalf. As I mentioned in my post, Cory is well-known as an anti-DRM/copyleft activist.

As to whether or not you should be able to easily burn the audio of these videos to CD using iTunes: that point is very very debatable. After all, you can’t easily rip the audio component of the DVD version either.

]]> By: Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » A two-tier music distribution system? http://www.deadlocked.org/2006/09/03/the-facts-my-friend-are-blowin-in-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » A two-tier music distribution system? Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:52:36 +0000 http://www.deadlocked.org/2006/09/03/the-facts-my-friend-are-blowin-in-the-wind/#comment-168 [...] I got this information from Amazon and I suspect Cory did the same.  But I haven’t actually seen the molecular product, which is confusing because there are two versions as well, so maybe the same problem of unrippable music exists there.  It doesn’t change much, despite what deadlocked says.  The iTunes experience is lauded for its consistency and fairness, and for the ease with which iTunes customers can convert their purchased songs into MP3s. But this is a dramatic failure of the consistency, clarity and ease of iTunes. [...] [...] I got this information from Amazon and I suspect Cory did the same.  But I haven’t actually seen the molecular product, which is confusing because there are two versions as well, so maybe the same problem of unrippable music exists there.  It doesn’t change much, despite what deadlocked says.  The iTunes experience is lauded for its consistency and fairness, and for the ease with which iTunes customers can convert their purchased songs into MP3s. But this is a dramatic failure of the consistency, clarity and ease of iTunes. [...]

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