Real Networks boss says Ipod owners are obtaining music illegally

Iria · May 11, 2006, 11:20 PM

Source: TG Daily
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In an interview with The Guardian, the chief executive of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, voiced a concern on how Ipod users are getting their hands on music. "About half the music on Ipods is music obtained illegitimately either from an illegal peer-to-peer networks or from ripping friends' CDs, which is illegal," he said.

The inference is, of course, that Ipod owners are, for the most part, stealing their music. "The average number of songs sold for the iPod is 25," he said. However he was taking more of a shot at Apple than at Ipod users, saying that stealing music is "the only way to get non-copy protected, portable, interoperable music," slamming the proprietary nature of Apple's Ipod and Itunes system.

pr0digal jenius · May 11, 2006, 11:22 PM

he ain't to bright....if he's just now realizing this...or if he thinks its limited to just iPods

StuRReaL · May 11, 2006, 11:52 PM

Hes only trying to sell his DRM for ipods. Its about time Real stopped this sort of thing and spend time actually making a good product (the video codec is good the rest isn't)

**dj_stick** · May 11, 2006, 11:53 PM

i wonder if he'll take a look at RealMedia… at least apple took an existing moderately supported audio codec… yet they added more restrictions than a high security prison

May 11, 2006, 11:20 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Real Networks boss says Ipod owners are obtaining music illegally Source: TG Daily __________ In an interview with The Guardian, the chief executive of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, voiced a concern on how Ipod users are getting their hands on music. "About half the music on Ipods is music obtained illegitimately either from an illegal peer-to-peer networks or from ripping friends' CDs, which is illegal," he said. The inference is, of course, that Ipod owners are, for the most part, stealing their music. "The average number of songs sold for the iPod is 25," he said. However he was taking more of a shot at Apple than at Ipod users, saying that stealing music is "the only way to get non-copy protected, portable, interoperable music," slamming the proprietary nature of Apple's Ipod and Itunes system.

May 11, 2006, 11:52 PM	#3
StuRReaL DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Derby UK Posts: 78 Rep Power: 0	Hes only trying to sell his DRM for ipods. Its about time Real stopped this sort of thing and spend time actually making a good product (the video codec is good the rest isn't) __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ 1GB OCZ Platinum x2 74Gb WD Raptors RAID0 256mb Radeon X1300 Sapphire Pure Innovation M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Windows XP x64 Edition

May 11, 2006, 11:22 PM	#2
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	he ain't to bright....if he's just now realizing this...or if he thinks its limited to just iPods