Posted on 08/05/2013 5:17:21 AM PDT by illiac
Apple Inc.'s AAPL +1.27%e-book problem is spilling over into its other media businesses.
After winning last month an e-books antitrust suit against Apple, the Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge to limit Apple's influence in the publishing market and give the government oversight of the iTunes Store and App Store.
. The government proposals, if accepted, could give music, television-show and content owners more leverage in negotiations with a company that has been an aggressive bargainer in opening up traditional media to digital distribution
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Privacy nothing (that’s already gone) - this is an unbelievable takeover of an information source.
Who the F do these gub mint pukes think they are
Get a life dammit,
Go aftersome. Bad guys ya garbage.
Well, it would be nice if I could switch to a droid tablet and still be able to enjoy the music, books and video I’ve purchased in Itunes.
This is VERY bad, folks. This is bad in groundbreaking ways. "Big Data" is now a thing and our government leads the globe in its implementation and mining.
Think about this: when the NSA thing broke by Snowden a few months ago, there was little overwhelming dissent. Details about WHO they were tracking/data mining, the American people, is against the law and not the purpose of the Patriot Act. People seemed disinterested.
Then details about WHAT they were tracking came out: phone calls, emails, IMs, Facebook chats, Skype calls. Still nothing.
Then details about HOW they were tracking came out: your very own phone, unsecured browsers, emailed malware/spyware. Still not a peep.
There's a completely underwhelming response to all of this, and guess what? The lack of armed rebellion in the streets, calling for mass resignations of government officials, or even pitchfork and torch wielding masses converging on the NSA Utah data center are proving to the government, "Well, looks like they don't care. Let's keep ratcheting it up!"
NOW, they are making illegal demands on private businesses to install port sniffing software at the switch level and force providers like iTunes to forward all interactions with the service to the Feds. This is as warrantless as warrantless wiretapping gets, but nothing. Not a peep from anyone. Not a single person can do or say ANYTHING anymore.
The Federal government is going to mandate all private transactions and business are routed through them for databases on everyone. Your entire life, from birth to death, will be cataloged. Before long sociopathy, drug use, psychopathy, lack of intelligence will all be "predicted" through the use of behavioral algorithms. You'll be arrested for merely existing because you'll be presupposed to be thinking about possibly committing a crime, maybe.
If you plan to run for public office, government officials will "accidentally" leak information to the press on rivals. The government has a monopoly on data, that means the government can control who is among them. The period of the citizen legislator, the representative, is dead. Long live the empire of data. Long live Barack Hussein Obama, the Marxist Faggot-in-Chief.
Statists dream of having all the means of production in the hands of the government. They can’t do it 100% in the USA (yet) so they do it a little at a time. GM, and now Apple.
You can if you are synced to a PC. All the music files are stored in the my music/itunes/music folder. I just switched to a droid from an ipad. All I had to do was drag and drop. No adding songs, then creating playlists, then syncing. Much easier. I am not an Apple hater (2 ipads, 3 iphones) but I hate Itunes. Biggest pain in the ass program I have ever used.
The thing I don't like about this legal concept is that is sounds like the government sending a representative to look over Hank Reardon's shoulder in Atlas Shrugged.
This is bad but there’s a part of me that takes some pleasure in watching these liberal internet billionaires who got in bed with the DNC dogs discover just how bad the fleas can be.
Well, like it or not, they did create all the things that we are using now and enjoy every day, ranging from PCs to smartphones to e-publishing. I think many of them probably weren’t particularly liberal at the start, but as it became clear that the only route to wealth and power was through being approved in liberal politics, they probably adapted.
However, that said, I’m actually surprised that there’s not more complaint among them about this. It’s like the government taking over the modern version of Standard Oil.
America no longer has a Justice Department. A Department of Oversight, perhaps, but not a Justice Department.
Follows n the heels of the ban/repeal of the import of lots of iPhone devices. The corrupt ‘justice’ department continues to attack Apple.
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