In Through The Out Door

Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs:

“Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest ”features“ in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, ‘fairplay’. Stross writes, ‘If ”crippleware“ seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard ”FairPlay,“ but fair it is not…. You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.’ Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the past, continue to go unnoticed?”