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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2016-05-06:

"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.

-- James Pinkstone, recounting a conversation with an Apple rep after Apple Music deleted 122 GB of music files from his laptop.

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

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)

From realinterrobang's quote post a couple days ago:

[T]hrough the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users' computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple's database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn't recognize -- which came up often, since I'm a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself -- it would then download it to Apple's database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted." -- James Pinkstone, "Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.", Vellum Atlanta

[Happy Mother's Day to anyone in the ... 84? ... countries celebrating that today who are, or still have, mothers! (Wikipedia lists 31 dates for Mother's Day in different countries and on four different calendars. The second Sunday in May looks like the most common date, with Greece, Turkey, Canada, Cyprus and the US all celebrating it today. (Fourth Sunday in Lent for the UK, so a couple months ago.)]

Today is
Gregorian: 2016 May 08
Julian: 2016 April 25
Hebrew: 5776 Nisan 30
Islamic: 1437 Rajab 30
Persian 1395 Ordibehesht 19
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.3.7.14
Indian: 1938 Vaisakha 18