usatoday.com — Without restrictions on entire catalogs, "Sales would explode," says David Pakman, CEO of eMusic, the No. 2 online music retailer behind Apple's iTunes. "DRM has been holding the market back." His company is the only legitimate digital music service selling unrestricted songs, in the MP3...
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infoshowzenFeb 13, 2007
But wait - would Google catch hell for having AdSense on these DRM-less sites? Oh the humanity.
frikkFeb 13, 2007
Because that is illegal.Its weird. Making a device or software with intent to strip DRM is illegal.Stripping DRM is not illegal...So hence - a CD burner exists for a legal purpose with the side effect of stripping DRM. An application which strips DRM is unlawful by definition. Funny, eh?
vektuzFeb 13, 2007
Every few months I search for a place to purchase and then download the songs I want without DRM. I'm willing to pay a decent amount per song.Unfortunately I only find places offering songs I don't want (Sorry ultra-indie-labels that I dont know about) without DRM. So I keep my money.I'm sure I'm not the only one
quixFeb 13, 2007
"They need to do something about audio quality as well before I, or assume, many people will buy. But no DRM is a step in the right direction."For me personally, higher quality is even MORE important that DRM-free. The 128 bitrate in iTunes is what's kept me from purchasing more music. Not DRM.Why not let the consumer choose the bitrate he or she wants? Let me set my preference for ALL my purchases: lossless, 320 kbps, 192 kbps, 128 kbps, etc. That bitrate is then downloaded automatically each time I make a purchase. If Apple used this approach (with 128 kbps as the default choice), the uncaring masses would likely stick with the status quo (128), while those who are more discriminating could select higher bitrates. That way, Apple wouldn't have to plan for an across-the-board increase in bandwidth use.I'd start buying a lot more music through iTunes if I had the option of lossless encoding.
bobjr94Feb 13, 2007
The only on line site Ive used has been emusic. My sister is on her 3th sucky Ipod in 2 years( battery failure, buttons broken off, hard drive/ internal hardware failure, screen breaking,etc... Now she cant change to anything else because her music, videos and movies are locked up with itunes. Even though the ipod suck she is is stuck with them forever unless she wants to re-buy all the stuff she has boughtMy wife ripped all her music cd's to real audio jukebox a few years ago and they are all some weird ARM( i think it was) format thats been abandoned almost nothing plays anymore. You cant copy them back to a cd or put them on any portable player and you cant convert them to anything else. Since she got a new computer and we did a clean install of windows they wont even play on the computer they were ripped on, there just dead files taking up space. Since her cd case got stolen from her car she is is just screwed by drm crap.How must do the music / movie industry waste on protection? Like how much does a movie company pay macrovision to use its protection to prevent analog copies of movies(who copies to a vcr anyway, blank dvds are cheaper). Even if it is like 50 cents a movies x 5 million movies that a 2.5 million $ wasted. And you can just use a signal converter that like 15$ at walmart to get rid of it.How much did they pay for and how much are they still paying dvd copy protection that was borken a long time ago? And how much did they waste on protection on both kinds of HD dvds? They made all these stupid rules up like not showing true HD on a analog outputs, only hdmi and if you have an older tv then go buy a new one. Thats why people wanted to break it, so they can just copy it to divx hd and play it on anything.
richgcFeb 14, 2007
Yes, a friend had no idea until he tried to put his paid for iTunes music onto a new creative jukebox, so sadly people will only find out after paying for DRM.
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mardraumJan 3, 2009
has anyone noticed that Apple are selling that NIN album The Slip in iTunes? you could say they're...giving us THE SLIPYEAHwait, no they're not. f**k. bury this comment.