{"id":196820,"date":"2008-03-20T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/really-really-really-bad-ideas-steve-jobs-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:28:00","slug":"really-really-really-bad-ideas-steve-jobs-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/really-really-really-bad-ideas-steve-jobs-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Really, Really, Really Bad Ideas: Steve Jobs Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs is in negotiations with Universal Music about <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/19\/apple-will-listen-to-universals-music-subscription-pitch\/\">selling preloaded iPods<\/a>, where the player will have a subscription attached to the device.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is a good or a bad idea, if I want music, I want to own it, and if you want me to rent it, I will just fire up \u00b5Torrent, additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9898282-7.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e433\">eMusic is clearly threatening an antitrust lawsuit on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do know that one thing is a bad idea, the idea of giving music distributors a cut of the hardware sales.  There is a difference between making a subscription service available on your player, and giving a cut of each hardware sale to those distributors.<\/p>\n<p>It is the camel&#8217;s nose under the tent, and it will be used ad precedent in future lawsuits against the hardware manufactures and against independent distributors of music.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad for the consumer and it&#8217;s bad for Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs is in negotiations with Universal Music about selling preloaded iPods, where the player will have a subscription attached to the device. I&#8217;m not sure if this is a good or a bad idea, if I want music, I want to own it, and if you want me to rent it, I will just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1065,1109,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-ip","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}