New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners?
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Posted June 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: apple, AppleTV, ipod, itunes, iTunes Store, media, tv. 2 Comments.

Following Steve Jobs’ ant-DRM post, people began to wonder if Apple was just pointing fingers or really willing to distribute DRM-free music via their online store. Yesterday we learned the answer.
Apple and EMI announced yesterday they would offer DRM-free 256bit AAC premium downloads, priced at $1.29 each.
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Posted April 3, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Technology. Tags: apple, digital restrictions management, digital rights management, drm, DRM-free, EMI, itms, itunes, iTunes Store. One Comment.

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets.
Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s “proprietary” DRM used in the iTunes Music Store.
There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most [...]

Posted February 7, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property. Tags: apple, drm, ipod, itms, itunes, music, music digital rights management, music stores, steve jobs. 2 Comments.

I couldn’t help but want one when they were released. I still wanted one after reading the reviews. And I couldn’t help but think about buying one when I finally got to play with it in the store. My wife, loving me and knowing me as she does, got me one.
Yes, I got a video [...]

Posted December 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: convert video, convert video for ipod, ipod, ipod import, ipod swap, ipod video, itunes, video, video ipod. One Comment.

I can’t explain why, at least not yet, but I’m looking for a way to search the iTunes Music Store catalog outside of iTunes. Rumors of an iTunes-Google partnership have been flying lately, but what I really want is a webservice/API I can use. Yes, Apple offers an affiliate program that supports direct links, but [...]

Posted August 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: itms, itms-4-all, itunes, itunes music store, itunes music store api, music store, music store api, pymuscique, webservice, webservices, xml. 10 Comments.

Napster — the legal, reincarnated music download site — essentially invented the concept of incumbent campus download services. They loudly touted deals with schools “anxious” to stop the p2p music sharing problem. Trouble is, according to this story at The Reg, it’s not working well. A survey at one client university paints a sad picture:
Not [...]

Posted July 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: itunes, music download, music download services, music sharing, musicmatch, napster, new york, ominous sign, p2p, rochester, survey, the register, university of rochester. Be the first one.

I’m not sure what to think about Steve J’s WWDC announcement (video stream) of Apple’s switch to x86 processors. Coverage at MacNN, Mac Rumors, Ars Technica, etc. I’m not sure, but it would be easier to take if I wasn’t the only one who saw conspiracy in it. Does this relate to Intel’s recent shoehorning [...]

Posted June 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Technology. Tags: apple, arstechnica, copyright, cpu, drm, emulation, guinea pigs, intel, itunes, macc, macintosh, macnn, macrumors, pcworld, ppc, tomshardware, wwdc, x86, x86 emulation, x86 processors. 3 Comments.