Monday, October 4, 2004
Ballmer Claims Most Music on iPods is Stolen
Posted by James Fee in "NEWS" @ 10:00 AM
""The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'," he told reporters in London today, according to a Silicon.com report. Ballmer conveniently ignores not only that there are many non-Apple music players out there, on which there are probably as many, if not more "stolen" songs. He singles out the Mac maker for attention because - wait for it - "we've had DRM in Windows for years". The implication is that DRM hasn't been in the Mac OS for a similar duration, and that's what's allowed all those stolen tracks to seep through onto the web. Windows has, of course, also had Napster, Grokster, Streamcast, Aimster, Kazaa full and lite, et al for years, but - again - none of that Windows-only music theft apparatus has registered on Mr Ballmer's radar screen, it seems."
One reason I love Ballmer is he opens he mouth before he thinks. You get some really great quotes from people like that. There really isn't much to say about this story, other than I think if shows how important Microsoft views online music sales. Apple better load up, because Microsoft is going to do the same thing to them that they did to Netscape andWordperfect.
One reason I love Ballmer is he opens he mouth before he thinks. You get some really great quotes from people like that. There really isn't much to say about this story, other than I think if shows how important Microsoft views online music sales. Apple better load up, because Microsoft is going to do the same thing to them that they did to Netscape andWordperfect.
