Comments on: Share Music Via iTunes, But For How Long? http://neuro.me.uk/2003/05/17/share-music-via-itunes-but-for-how-long/ Are you one-point-oh? Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Martin http://neuro.me.uk/2003/05/17/share-music-via-itunes-but-for-how-long/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Martin Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://neuro.me.uk/2003/05/17/share-music-via-itunes-but-for-how-long/#comment-552 The reason this won't kill iTunes is that whether or not you can save the incoming streams, unlike Napster you can still only stream to 3 users at once and there's no global searchability. Also, if you're streaming tracks you've bought from the iTunes store, you need to use up one of your (total 3) authentications for each recipient machine. These mechanisms may be subvertable with effort, but the subversion isn't in the app by design, which shifts the liability from Apple to the person who puts in the effort. The reason this won’t kill iTunes is that whether or not you can save the incoming streams, unlike Napster you can still only stream to 3 users at once and there’s no global searchability.

Also, if you’re streaming tracks you’ve bought from the iTunes store, you need to use up one of your (total 3) authentications for each recipient machine.

These mechanisms may be subvertable with effort, but the subversion isn’t in the app by design, which shifts the liability from Apple to the person who puts in the effort.

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