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Eliot Van Buskirk: iTunes Match Is the Past Disguised as the Future
In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping.
Steve Jobs didn’t believe people wanted to rent music, which is why iTunes doesn’t offer a real subscription service. Apple iCloud and its recently launched iTunes Match feature are neat, and helpful.
But this system is essentially an invisible, infinitely long USB cable that you can rent for $25 per year. You still have to “own” the mus...
Hard-Boiled Photog Blends the Old With the New

Photo: Bill Eppridge
Bill Eppridge knows the rules of photography have changed. The ways of the ’60s, when he was a staff photographer at LIFE magazine, are long gone: Staff photo positions are near extinct, everyone with an iPhone now claims to be a photographer and film seems to be a four-letter word of antiquity.
That said, Eppridge, who has shot many of the historic events of the last half-century, believes the power of documentary...
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