Post by trini on Jul 13, 2005 8:58:21 GMT -5
Something about the music industry, an opinion that I share wholeheartedly and you should too!! It's madness to think of what they've done to paying customers in the name of piracy prevention...a fix which btw is NOT working!!
I'm in a digital music bind, and I don't like it. And I'm getting a little impatient waiting for the rest of the public to catch the DRM outrage bug. I can't imagine why people don't object more strongly to the idea that you can't choose a music player without choosing a compatible music service and vice versa. Maybe it's because the model is similar to ones we're already enslaved by, such as our forced cell phone/carrier marriages. But that's thinking about things all wrong. I wouldn't buy food that can be cooked only in a GE microwave. I wouldn't buy a car that I could drive only while wearing Adidas shoes.
So where's the outrage about the creeping death of digital media DRM
But doesn't it bother you, even a little bit, that you can't sync your iPod with your home computer and your work computer? That if you lose or erase one of your iTunes-purchased songs, you can't just download it again, you have to buy it? That if you buy your wife, daughter, or pal an iPod and load up a bunch of songs from the Music Store as an additional gift, wife/daughter/pal can't copy those songs onto a computer because they're tied to your iTunes Music Store account? If it doesn't, it should.
Call me crazy, but I truly believe there should be no copy protection on digital audio. People will pay to download music, so why restrict what they do with that music once they buy it? Especially if they'll pay what is, really, the exorbitant amount of $1 per song. That's one dollar per digital audio file . This unholy alliance of hardware and digital audio must end. Until it does, I'll keep buying CDs, and I'll keep ripping my friends' CDs and loading 'em up on my iPod while my iTunes Music Store account goes untouched. Come and get me, RIAA.
So where's the outrage about the creeping death of digital media DRM
But doesn't it bother you, even a little bit, that you can't sync your iPod with your home computer and your work computer? That if you lose or erase one of your iTunes-purchased songs, you can't just download it again, you have to buy it? That if you buy your wife, daughter, or pal an iPod and load up a bunch of songs from the Music Store as an additional gift, wife/daughter/pal can't copy those songs onto a computer because they're tied to your iTunes Music Store account? If it doesn't, it should.
Call me crazy, but I truly believe there should be no copy protection on digital audio. People will pay to download music, so why restrict what they do with that music once they buy it? Especially if they'll pay what is, really, the exorbitant amount of $1 per song. That's one dollar per digital audio file . This unholy alliance of hardware and digital audio must end. Until it does, I'll keep buying CDs, and I'll keep ripping my friends' CDs and loading 'em up on my iPod while my iTunes Music Store account goes untouched. Come and get me, RIAA.