Apple Hunts Playfair in India

An anonymous reader writes "A news posting at Sarovar.org says that they have to take down the 'PlayFair' program upon receiving a notice from Apple's attorneys. They are awaiting their attorneys' response. This is bad news for all those who appreciated this cool program. Let's hope that 'PlayFair' might appear in some other country now."

Must... never... pay... for... music!!

[djcatnip]

sheesh.

They could move PlayFair to Afghanistan...

[Equuleus42]

...It'll never be caught there! :^)

Ba-doom-boom-crash!

Send in the marines!

[Anonymous Coward]

Gotta get those damn bastards before they cause any more trouble! Shoot them until they're dead!

Oh, and liberate India on the way out. Hey, two birds with one stone!

Wait, what's that? India is an ally? Oh... Um... Guess we'll just have to settle for killing those "PlayFair" guys, whatever that means. Darn, I was looking forward to my daily bloodbath. Wonder how Iraq is doing? *click*

- G. W. Bush

Re:P2P?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ummm.. If history is any indication, they'll start selling it themselves, right?

Err..

Re:For everybody defending Apple's DRM

[geekbox5]

Well, it's different. Apple doesn't make an operating system or media player.....er...wait.... *runs off*

Sadly this must reappear tilll we get it straight

[Anonymous Coward]

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By the way, wouldn't it be great if Devo was 99c a song?
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Another Country?

[DCowern]

Let's hope that 'PlayFair' might appear in some other country now.

In Soviet Russia, Apple plays fair!

Re:A few thoughts

[b!arg]

I look at it simply like this: You are either for DRM technology, or you are against it.

President Bush? Is that you? If so, I hope to god you are not "the next president."

Re:not a cool program at all

[Sloppy]

Digital music stores aren't something worth preserving, if they come with DRM. CDs are better.

What's more, they're endangering the near (at least) future of legal digital music downloading.

No. Why would a more legit store, like Audio Lunchbox [audiolunchbox.com], care if their competitor's DRM system got cracked?

DRM is just a phase the industry was going through. Eventually the stockholders will start asking for money, and the industry will go back to the making-it-easy-to-have-customers business. You know, the business where they made countless millions of dollars selling unprotected CDs. The business that sold more DVDs after CSS was cracked, than before. Greed and the desire for sales, will eventually destroy DRM. You don't get rich, telling potential customers to fuck off.

Re:A few thoughts

[Anonymous Coward]

No this would be more like Canada parking a boat with a moose and a mounty outside of a foreign country and making a 'request.'

Re:A few thoughts

[tritone]

Apple doesn't have any airforce, unles you count Steve Jobs' Gulfstream. What sort of threat does Apple have? to shut off India's supply of pink iPod minis?

Re:A few thoughts

[aminorex]

Your failure to choke on a chicken bone is depriving me of my revenue stream as an EMT.

Re:A few thoughts

[TheRaven64]

Don't knock the moose, they're tough creatures. I know someone who drove a car into one. The car was a write off. The moose barely noticed.