RE: Apple's lawyer: iTunes sells data, not music

[James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> > > Apple Computer lead counsel Anthony Grabiner argued that the
> market-leading iTunes music store was primarily a data transmission service,
> permitted by the agreement.
>
> Aren't music CDs just data?
Isn't everything data?

There's an interesting topic over on Bruce Schneier's blog about Monolith
- the idea that if you can XOR together two random bitstreams to get a
Britney Spears mp3, then that mp3 must somehow have become public
domain.

Most of the commenters are saying something like: maybe the random
bitstreams can't be proven to infringe, but if someone uses them to
produce something humanly indistinguishable to a copyrighted work,
they can/will be busted.

Clearly, Apple Records (and the RIAA) need to go after speaker
manufacturers - everyone else is pushing around bits and voltages :)

James
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