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Cory Doctorow is an alarmist self-promoting whore
Title says the jist of it.
Cory Doctorow is an alarmist self-promoting whore
OK, so leave boingboing out of it. Instead, let's try reporting this instead:
Cory Doctorow is an alarmist self-promoting whore
If the mini store pane is open, and I click on a song to play it, the items in the pane change. Either I'm completely retarded, or I understand that there isn't some sort of black magic going on here. When I realize I don't want people suggesting music to me and cluttering up the window, I turn off/hide the mini store pane and data ceases to be transmitted. There is no longer any information going anywhere, and no one suggests other music for me. In your example, you give no control over the transmission or collection of data. This is the core issue here. Go to Amazon.com and browse books and music for a moment--don't BUY anything, just browse. It remembers what you've seen, but if I want to stop this from happening, I disable cookies. In your example, if there's an easily located, obviously placed option in Excel to disable the data mining behaviour, then there isn't a problem; if not, people should ring the alarm. This is about whether or not you can control the data that exists, not whether or not it does exist. Cory and BoingBoing should be brought into this, because he is going to use BoingBoing to fan the flames of a non-issue. He needs a muzzle.
Privacy, Apple, and the MS Analogy
There is clearly a need to separate issues to sort out whether Apple has "crossed the line":
The important questions to ask (with my thoughts/suggested answers):
OR
The simple solution for Apple is to provide a first run dialog for the new mini store enabled version, much like is done where a first run of iTunes asks if you want to search for MP3s on your drive. The could do an opt-in, where they ask, "iTunes can now show store selections based on your existing library. Would you like to see this in your main window?" Or, a little more sneaky opt-out, "iTunes now brings the power of the iTunes music store to your current library. You can select Edit -> Hide Mini Store to disable." Internet connection warning labels and links to, yes, a privacy policy should be provided on that dialog. ---
Poor analogy
That's just a wrong-headed analogy. I don't use Office as a method to purchase anything. It wasn't designed or marketed as a means to purchase content. If you can find another piece of software that is an interface for buying content, I might find the analogy at least worthy of argument.
Poor analogy
That's just a wrong-headed analogy. I don't use Office as a method to purchase anything. It wasn't designed or marketed as a means to purchase content.You seem to have managed to forget that most users of itunes do not use it as a method to purchase anything, they simply use it to play their existing music and transfer it to their ipods. Many people in fact chose to use itunes, or invest in ipods, well before it was "designed or marketed as a means to purchase content," and yet they've had this spyware version thrust upon them via deceptive patch notes. Which I would say makes the analogy pretty apt.
Cory Doctorow is an alarmist self-promoting whore
LOL. I was just thinking this myself. BoingBoing seems to have become even more juvenile lately. It's becoming the cult of goatse, amongst other things.
Cory Doctorow is an alarmist self-promoting whore
It's really just Cory that's cluttering it up with DRM this and that every other day. I can't stomach reading the site on a day where Cory's gone on another DRM posting spree. |
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