Even if they do come down on the idea that downloading a file is the same as using a Tivo, providing a file FOR download (which you are also doing, if you use bittorrent - it's the genius of the system) is most certainly not. It'd be the same thing as if I recorded a TV show from my HDTV Tivo onto a DVD, stripping commercials at the same time, and went out to a street corner in New York and made copies for the cost of the DVD-Rs, starting about an hour after the show aired. (Well, that's more like running an FTP server, not bittorrent. But if I made one copy, gave it to somebody on the street in exchange for them sitting there long enough to make one other copy and give it to somebody else, and so forth, then that would be bittorrent.)
Pretty obviously illegal. Nobody has distribution rights except the people that made the show. They still want to air reruns, and they want those people in Times Square to watch the reruns, and they have every right to shut down people that help kill the profitiability of the market, as that market is in fact protected by copyright law.
That doesn't mean it's a good business decision to attack it at this point, before they have any form of iTunes-like substitute of their own worked out. Built on a bittorrent-like technology backed by central servers. But they were attacking it anyway, because of movie and game pirates, so they went ahead and decided to go whole hog.
Nope, iTunes shuns the Win98 people. Grr ....
One Ozzy tune! That's all I want for Christmas!
You could have someone else download it for you, then provide it to you via other means.
Nobody has distribution rights except the people that made the show.
Which is true. In which case they need to go after the people who are actually doing the distribution, and in the BitTorrent instance, that's... oh, us.
Never mind. *g*
In my own defense, I generally only dl things I can't get any other way. (Well, and UK airings of shows I like, so as to avoid being spoiled for them.) So while it's technically illegal, nobody's losing money by it.
You could have someone else download it for you, then provide it to you via other means.
That's very true and would be very nice, but ... I want it now!!!!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled adult behavior.
t kicks iTunes
Maybe some kind soul has already taken pity upon you and sent a link to your profile address.
I don't think there's a version of iTunes for Windows 98.
You can't buy straight from the web site? I hadn't realised. I think MMJB lets you just buy. And for future, I think MSN Music is also an option.
MSN's DRM is trying to push everyone who uses it to XP, so I doubt their store would support 98 -- or if it does, it won't this time next year.
And MMJB says:
Pentium Class 300 MHz processor or better (1 GHz recommended), Windows® XP (including Media Center Edition), 250 MB hard drive space (500 MB recommended), 128 MB RAM, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later with SP1. Download the latest version of Internet Explorer for free here).
Damn. I know they do run on W2K, but still. Pretty clear direction. Does anyone else sell tracks?
