TITSUP: Apple Music, App Stores, iCloud, iTunes, Radio, iBooks Apple's web stores, music-streaming jukeboxes, and cloud services have been struggling to stay online for the past three hours. As of 0959 PT (1659 UTC), Apple's status page is still reporting partial outages for the iOS and OS X App Stores and Apple TV, as well as the iTunes services, Apple Music, and Radio. The systems fell …
"Copying CDs to music players is illegal in the UK. You have to buy the same content again or face 10 years in jail in the UK."
Technically yes but in total reality the police and the authorities aren't going to give a shit. If you're someone who does it on a massive scale and makes it available to others, however, obviously it's a different story, but they aren't in the least bit interested in private individuals copying their own collection or even their mate's collection.
"Copying CDs to music players is illegal in the UK. You have to buy the same content again or face 10 years in jail in the UK."
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.
However.. Thank you for the advice and ensuring my future liberty.... Deleting gigabytes of flac and mp3 now. </genuine sarcasm>
"Copying CDs to music players is illegal in the UK. You have to buy the same content again or face 10 years in jail in the UK."
I've been copying my music onto formats I like for well over 40 years now. If someone actually wanted to try to prosecute because I moved to a different format, despite my having a truly large collection of CDs and vinyl LPs plus the equipment necessary to turn them into digitalised formats, I'd say for 'em to come get me.
It is true that I haven't bought much music lately. Current music tends to annoy me, so I listen to my older stuff.
"I buy content in the form of CD's It can't then be deleted from the media/devices I then choose to transfer it too."
Sigh. With (some) books and with movies you might have a point. Not with music. From the very first versions of iTunes (back when iTunes was actually usable...) it was entirely possible to ensure that your purchased content couldn't be remotely deleted. (Step 1: download content. Step 2: set up a playlist. Step 3: burn a CD or otherwise copy the playlist. Step 4: put the copied content back into iTunes. Or, indeed, into anything which would play said content. Apple would be completely unable to delete that content. Until iTunes Match arrived, Apple wouldn't even know that content existed. And, yes, if the music was DRMed at the start, it's not DRMed anymore. From the beginning iTunes could burn up to seven copies of any playlist, and the copies would NOT be DRMed. You'd think that Apple was deliberately trying to sabotage the music companies, and you'd be correct.)
I don't usually get books from Apple; virtually all of my ebooks are acquired from other sources, converted to epubs (if necessary) and had their metadata massaged in calibre, and then moved to iBooks and iTunes strictly so that said ebooks may be viewed on my iPad. calibre doesn't touch DRMed content, so I don't, either, unless I absolutely have no choice. Those few ebooks I have from Apple (and Amazon, via Kindle) are copied over to calibre, too. (I prefer the iBooks reader on my iPad to the Kindle reader for iOS. I suspect that Amazon has deliberately crippled it, and their readers for OS X and Window, to try to get users to get a Kindle. That, or the Kindle interface is just truly crappy.) This means that I usually have at least two copies of any book, one in calibre and one in iBooks. And Apple can't do a damn thing to the calibre copy. (Neither can Amazon.)
It should be noted that there are ways to deDRM almost all ebooks, should I absolutely have to do that... and I have done exactly that. This means that I have several hand-built epubs sitting in calibre and usually in iBooks. Neither Apple nor Amazon have any idea that I have them, and so they cannot delete them.
Movies I don't know about. I usually use my Amazon Prime membership to access free (well, free after I pay for a year of Amazon Prime, which I would be doing anyway just for the free 2nd-day-air shipping) content and I simply don't care one way or another, as it's streaming content and doesn't live on my drives anyway. Movies and videos that I want to keep, such as my complete collection of every single episode of Farscape, are MKVs parked far, far, FAR way from iTunes. I don't even know if iTunes can handle MKVs, I've never tried.
It looks like something is very wrong with the DNS entries for Apple Music and a chunk of apple's back end.
Google's DNS (and Sky's DNS too) seem to be reporting the wrong hostnames for large swathes of Apple's estate. Apple themselves are telling people to use Norton Connectsafe DNS servers which do work (I was able to get Apple Music to work fine once I forced my home PC to use the Norton DNS servers rather Google (my usual default) or the standard Sky DNS that comes with the fibre service).
May well be something to do with Akamai - as it randomly works and randomly doesn't.
Not great for a service which, as you all will quote 'should just work'.
Well, it obviously just doesn't. :)
"Users are experiencing a problem with the services listed above. We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available."
That's like saying there being a fire in a theatre and announcing "Theater goers are experiencing problems with smoke inhalation and severe burns, we are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available:"
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