freeform goodnessfoxtrot foxtrot golfAnother Implication of iTunes Movie Rentals- January 17, 2008 So &8220;Fairplay Version 3&8221; apparently has the ability to handle expiring content. If I had to hazard a guess, I&8217;d say that Apple could, if they wanted, apply the same expiration logic to music. Steve Jobs has repeatedly stated that customers don&8217;t like to rent their music, and the relative success of online music sellers (e.g. iTunes, Amazon, eMusic) as opposed to renters (Rhapsody, etc.) would seem to bear that out. Still, it&8217;s an interesting new wrinkle. posted to...http://www.freeke.org/ffg/entertainment/music/expires.html iTunes Movie Rentals, part 2- January 17, 2008 When I woke up, the rental I started last night had stalled at the 75% point. Clicking the little revolvo-reloado iconlet in the iTunes downloads list revived it, and it finished up in about 15 minutes. Considering that I lost my IP connection a dozen times earlier Tuesday evening (the hotel wifi went through a really crappy phase), I&8217;m really not going to harp on the download performance too much. The Biz I disagree a small bit with Sven on the rentals being overpriced &8212;edit: I...http://www.freeke.org/ffg/entertainment/movies/itsmovierentals2.html |