[dreilly1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/ar...ic/29POPL.html

For those of you too lazy to register with NYT, here's the beginning:

Apple Computer seems to have the future of online music in its hands for the moment. Its new service, iTunes Music Store, has been the first real success story in the long effort to sell music over the Internet. In just its first month of operation the service, by the company's estimate, has sold three million songs online, at 99 cents each. This is an impressive figure considering the limited access that music fans now have to the service. Less than 1 percent of the country's home computers are Macintoshes that are compatible with the iTunes Music Store, and only a fraction of those have a broadband connection to the Internet.

But it would not be an online success story without a complicating twist. That complication came this week when the specter of the music industry, which has been publicly supportive of iTunes, began to loom over Apple. The success of iTunes, after all, depends on cooperation from the music business, which controls the songs that iTunes wants in its collection. Apparently trying to stay in the record industry's good graces, iTunes removed a service it had previously offered customers. Called Rendezvous, the service enabled listeners and their friends to access one another's music and listen to it � but not download it � from any computers. Hackers, however, had figured out how to download the music as well, creating programs with names like iLeach and iSlurp. So on Tuesday Apple sent out an update for its iTunes software, disabling Rendezvous and limiting music access to a user's local network at home or at work.

In a statement released yesterday, Apple said Rendezvous had been "used by some in ways that have surprised and disappointed us."

heh. An interesting article, if a bit inaccurate at times. We'll see how many more changes Apple makes in the future to thwart the evil pirate hackers. And how it plays out in the not-always-MAc-savvy media...

[Timo]

It's my impression that Steve Jobs coughs and there's a nice positve article about it in the next "Circuits" section of the NYT.

Interestingly, today's iTunes NYT article wasn't even in "Circuits" but in the more staid "Arts" section, with a picture of Jobs presenting.

[davesimondotcom]

Originally posted by dreilly1:
An interesting article, if a bit inaccurate at times.

Well, it IS the NYT - you can't expect total accuracy. At least the byline doesn't say "Jayson Blair."

[Timo]

Dude, Jayson Blair is so five minutes ago. The resignation-de-jour is a guy named Rick Bragg

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...uspension.html

New York Times Reporter Bragg Resigns
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


NEW YORK (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg has resigned from The New York Times after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer.

The resignation came Wednesday as the Times tried to rebound from a scandal in which the newspaper found fraud, plagiarism and inaccuracies in 36 of 73 recent articles by reporter Jayson Blair...