Something like dat la Nokia2003

*Cough*Cough*Still having tonsillitis ... damn fever and sorethroat*Cough*Cough*

I can't wait for firmware 2.1 for iPhone, coming out this Friday. Servers will be overloaded and just like how iPod touch users are frustrating to get the update on iTunes.

Remember the times when 2G iPhone users got all the attention in Apple's eye and left behind iPod touch users in terms of free firmware and pay firmware and etc.. now iPhone 2G and 3G users got it. New earphones & Nike+iPod is not compatible with iPhone and even iPod touch looks just like iPhone 3G.

This post has been edited by Mike3300: Sep 10 2008, 05:54 PM

TBH RM50 for 15 songs is kinda expensive. To the average American, 99 US cents is affordable.

You'd have to consider demographics when comparing costs. Here in Perth there's a chain of music stores that source CDs from mainly Asian countries, Malaysia included, because it's cheaper than sourcing the same material from local distributors.

Whatever it is, I'm not trying to condone piracy, all I'm saying is I can see a reason for it to happen especially in a country like Malaysia. It is however quite surprising how some of you can smugly make the claims you do; I'm willing to bet that most of you would have at one point or another obtained music illegitimately. I find it somewhat hard to believe that you would be able to fill up your 8/16/80GB iPods with nothing but legal material.

Just my opinion, I'm not out to flame anyone or shoot down anyone else's opinions.

And davidgary... my apologies if I offended you as an artist, hopefully you'll appeal to people out there who value your work enough to purchase it.

Read my post carefully. I've admitted that I've dabbled in piracy before, but through the years, I've became a repentant man. It is not whether you choose to remain legit and staying legit, it is about the will and the willingness to change. Leech and pirate if you want but if you come across something you like, do Malaysians do the right thing and purchase them legally?

P/S: My iPhone and iPod is filled with nothing but legal material. The effort to this effect was not immediate, but from years of staying true to the course. Again I reiterate, you dont have to completely throw away all your pirated copies, and start from scratch. Determining one's will to stay legal is already a good start.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 10 2008, 06:00 PM

No worries mate. Am not offended. Everyone is due to their opinions here and like you say, at one point we obtained music/softwares etc illegitimately but this can change if ppl desires to. I do hope they do.

Cheers

This post has been edited by davidgary73: Sep 10 2008, 06:04 PM

stringfellow I didn't mention you in particular, but others who have joined the strict anti-piracy bandwagon may have possibly somehow forgotten that they were once guilty of the very same crime.

Just taking care of my own end there. I agree on where we started off is because of the way society enforces their thoughts and preferences as we grow within them, but as we age, we should be able to grow OUT of the disgusting habits we were once guilty of. Not wanting to change, or even not trying to even change, makes you somewhat guilty of contributing towards the issue.

Just came back home...
Busy day..
I want to watch Apple 'Let's Rock' event..
Where should i go to watch?
Apple website one like laggy...youtube also can't seem to find the full version..

The Apple's version works fine with me. Small window yes, but no hiccups.

Well if I like a particular track enough that I am convinced I will listen to it time and time again in most cases I will purchase the album. There are certain things that I enjoy but can't get hold of legally, ie. anime and various other imported media.

I'd rather admit that I've done my fair share of piracy rather than be a hypocrite and adopt a "we support ori... end of story" kinda stance to things. As you mentioned, I think the aging part has a fair bit to do with it as well; somehow I don't see myself searching torrent sites in 10 or so years, but that obviously remains to be seen.

With TV episodes and stuff... personally I don't see a difference between downloading them off torrent sites and recording a locally aired broadcast onto a PVR. In most cases aired programs are sponsored by the broadcaster/advertisers anyhow.

If you don't mind, you can download the keynote on iTunes. The size is around 700MB+.

To keep things within the legality loop, would you be willing to wait until the said episode airs onto the locally aired broadcast before torrenting it?

FCC in the States have explicitly disallow recording of any kind, of TV show spisodes aired in any network in the US. The very same courtesy, is extended and complied with, under watchful eyes of MPAA to explicitly disallow this as well, when those said TV shows are syndicated and licensed to air as imported content in other countries as well. It is part of their license. There may be some grey areas we are troding there, but if found, you'd be in serious trouble. Luckily the hands of MPAA are not as far reaching as here.

How would you know if a series is to be aired in your particular country? Just as an example, I started watching Prison Break almost a year before the series debuted here.

I have no experience with with FCC regulations, all I know is PVRs and HD STBs are selling like hot cakes here. While this obviously doesn't necessarily prove that it's legal to record a broadcast it does show that it's a widespread practice that up till now has yet to be brought up as a major issue towards copyright infringement.

I see the haste for downloading Tv Shows here partly blamed for the lackadaisical attitude the local cable company here (read: Astro, monopoly and all) towards getting the shows updated here.

Things are a bit grey when it comes to this. I just feel going the purchase route being the safer and right than downloading torrents. Again, if you like those torrented episodes, show a little support to the production team by purchasing them. I also have another solution. Why not try Hulu.com? This streaming service provides the latest episodes of TV Shows currently airing in the States, and this does not tread upon illegal matters unlike torrents. I do Hulu.com when I need my Conan O'Brien fix.

Seriously, the new iPod Nano looks like some OEM products from China. LOL

iPhone Firmware 2.1(soon to be available) has an automatic wipe feature.



iPhone automatically securely wipe your iPhone or iPod Touch after 10 failed passcode attempts. This would come in hand but not with children around..

new firmware again ?

i am using 2.0.2 now. ( upgraded 3 days ago)

now want to format my iphone and re-install the FW again

Tomorrow, at 1-2am, this should be available. Damn work and all!

Hopefully someone can post the direct download link so we can use third party download manager to grab it. Using the iTunes in built download is very slow sometimes.

Not while I'm in Frankfurt.