Apple stole my music

[Phyphor]

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
“Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?”
“Yes,” she replied.

More at the blog.


Another reason iTunes will NOT EVER come NEAR any of my computers or other devices.

Apple may lip strangle my penis neck and die screaming in a fire.

That is all.

[HeroHog]

THIS is why my music lives on my SAN drive and I COPY to my local HD what I want iTunes to access!

[Ben]

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

More at the blog.


Another reason iTunes will NOT EVER come NEAR any of my computers or other devices.

Apple may lip strangle my penis neck and die screaming in a fire.

That is all.

Wasn't someone else (Amazon maybe?) doing something similar? That said, iTunes will never sit on any of my devices either. Way too intrusive.

An interesting thing I've found with Amazon Prime music is that in the past, if I downloaded a Prime playlist that I liked, the cloud playlist would often later remove songs (licensing I suppose), but the removed songs would remain in my offline library. Now I see the offline library is being read and the songs are removed there as well.

[KD5NRH]

Somebody else needed to learn...



This fascination with making everything dependent on both a fast, reliable network connection and a computer you haven't the slightest control over is downright disturbing.  Especially as dirt cheap as storage is these days.

[zxcvbob]

Somebody else needed to learn...



This fascination with making everything dependent on both a fast, reliable network connection and a computer you haven't the slightest control over is downright disturbing.  Especially as dirt cheap as storage is these days.

I may steal that for at work.

"Cloud" is just a buzzword tech executives say to impress each other with their cleverness.

[KD5NRH]

"Cloud" is just a buzzword tech executives say to impress each other with their cleverness.

Whenever they start using it just ask them what real guarantees there are that anything using cloud storage or sent to a cloud app for processing won't be data mined.

Or, for that matter, come back with a virus.

[zxcvbob]

Whenever they start using it just ask them what real guarantees there are that anything using cloud storage or sent to a cloud app for processing won't be data mined.

Or, for that matter, come back with a virus.

One of the other buzzwords is "analytics".  They are counting on data-mining other peoples cloud storage.

[Phyphor]

Whenever they start using it just ask them what real guarantees there are that anything using cloud storage or sent to a cloud app for processing won't be data mined.

Or, for that matter, come back with a virus.

Or even come back at all.

You can conceivably store something on a cloud server, have the business close down, and POOF, data's gone.

I'm sure you'd get warnings and such through email/text/calls, but if you failed to heed them in time?

[cordex]

Cloud storage and hosting is not universally stupid or a bad choice. I have had far more clients lose data that they stored themselves than lost data on remote hosted services.  The backup procedures and hardware redundancy offered by reputable cloud providers are much better than most individuals and small businesses are willing to pay for or manage.

In this particular case the author's problem was not that he was using a cloud service but that his cloud service overstepped and decided against his wishes to remove his personal files. 

[Phyphor]

No, it's not universally a bad choice...but it should NEVER be your only option.

[cordex]

No, it's not universally a bad choice...but it should NEVER be your only option.

Right, just as "one copy on my hard drive" should never be your only option.

[lupinus]

I may steal that for at work.

"Cloud" is just a buzzword tech executives say to impress each other with their cleverness.

My 70 something year old pastor has discovered the cloud in the form of Dropbox. I'm pretty sure he ranks discovering it just below the second coming, albeit barely.