<story><title>Apple Stole My Music</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clapinton</author><text>Remember the U2 fiasco, when Apple decided to break into your computer and push their new album through iTunes? It seems like whenever Apple decides to take control of your files, shit happens.&lt;p&gt;Back in the day, I tried to use iTunes for a while when I bought my iPod. One of the first things that it asked me was to take control of my music, as it would reorganize it by itself. I agreed, but tested it first with a small sample. When I saw the mess it had done to the way I organized my music, specially with the files&amp;#x27; names, I backed out of the auto-organize option and preached heavily against it to everyone I knew.&lt;p&gt;I learned my lesson: never let whatever service control your files. And always, ALWAYS have backup. Remember: The answer to life, the universe and how many backups you should keep of your stuff is 42.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>I am surprised at people trying to rationale Apples wrongdoing by pointing at Google and bringing some crazy examples.&lt;p&gt;There is no rationale in this - this is outright breaking your privacy and ownership rights. No terms and conditions can be above law. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter what others do - Apple is doing those crazy things here and there trying to test the ground which indicates they are not pro privacy and pro user, but rather are willing to go huge lengths to please music industry.&lt;p&gt;Only because you eating in the restaurant it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean waiter can run to your house and smash all of your food in the fridge reasoning &amp;quot;from now on you are covered&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavedwalden</author><text>While the U2 fiasco was a bad move, I don&amp;#x27;t think that &amp;quot;break into your computer&amp;quot; is a fair characterization of what they did. They added it to your available downloads and, depending on your sync settings, it was downloaded to devices.
I&amp;#x27;m not a huge fan of having my media managed by the companies I buy hardware from, but when I found a user&amp;#x27;s manual document on my Kindle I didn&amp;#x27;t consider it &amp;#x27;getting hacked&amp;#x27; by them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Stole My Music</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clapinton</author><text>Remember the U2 fiasco, when Apple decided to break into your computer and push their new album through iTunes? It seems like whenever Apple decides to take control of your files, shit happens.&lt;p&gt;Back in the day, I tried to use iTunes for a while when I bought my iPod. One of the first things that it asked me was to take control of my music, as it would reorganize it by itself. I agreed, but tested it first with a small sample. When I saw the mess it had done to the way I organized my music, specially with the files&amp;#x27; names, I backed out of the auto-organize option and preached heavily against it to everyone I knew.&lt;p&gt;I learned my lesson: never let whatever service control your files. And always, ALWAYS have backup. Remember: The answer to life, the universe and how many backups you should keep of your stuff is 42.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>I am surprised at people trying to rationale Apples wrongdoing by pointing at Google and bringing some crazy examples.&lt;p&gt;There is no rationale in this - this is outright breaking your privacy and ownership rights. No terms and conditions can be above law. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter what others do - Apple is doing those crazy things here and there trying to test the ground which indicates they are not pro privacy and pro user, but rather are willing to go huge lengths to please music industry.&lt;p&gt;Only because you eating in the restaurant it doesn&amp;#x27;t mean waiter can run to your house and smash all of your food in the fridge reasoning &amp;quot;from now on you are covered&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyinghamster</author><text>Defense in depth is a good thing as well. In my case, the first line of defense would be ZFS snapshots on my homebuilt NAS. If malware scrozzles my NAS, a rollback to the last snapshot can be a quick way to fix it.&lt;p&gt;Other systems get backed up to the NAS, and the NAS drives are periodically backed up onto a second ZFS pool that is normally kept physically offline.</text></comment>