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- angusm, on 07/24/2008, -6/+256Dear Consumer
We would like to thank you for being a customer of the DRM Clothing Store. Unfortunately, DRM'd clothing has not been as successful as we hoped, and we will be discontinuing service effective as of noon today. At the time that we suspend operation, all the DRM'd clothing that you have purchased will spontaneously cease to exist. We appreciate that this may be inconvenient to many of you, particularly to those of you who are currently wearing our DRM'd clothing at, say, a business meeting, a funeral or a formal dinner.
The DRM features in our clothing primarily affect the seams and stitching. If you use a sharp knife to separate your DRM'd clothing into separate fabric pieces, and then re-sew the clothing using your own needle and thread, the clothing will continue to function much as it did before. However, you must do so before noon today.
We regret the inconvenience caused to our loyal customers and thank you for your custom. We trust you will look back on your time as a customer of the DRM Clothing Store as an exciting adventure in digital living. And to those of you who don't receive this message in time, and find yourselves standing stark naked in a crowded subway car, trying to protect your modesty with an empty Starbucks cup and a day-old copy of the "New York Post", we'd just like to say "DRM Clothing - life on the digital edge!"
Yours sincerely, DRM Clothing
P.S. No refunds will be issued. - inactive, on 07/24/2008, -2/+174DRM is for suckers. PlaysForSure showed us that.
- eriksanerd, on 07/24/2008, -4/+173***** THE RIAA!
- MikeSobe, on 07/24/2008, -1/+120I don't like articles about DRM because they make me both sad and angry. I get pissed off that there isn't an simple way to buy music from various electronic outlets and play that bought music on any device. But then I get sad because if these executives weren't so ignorant to the consumer's wants they would make more money AND I would actually be interested in purchasing music.
- daebat, on 07/24/2008, -7/+103who uses yahoo music anyways?
- techblogLAT, on 07/25/2008, -2/+75This is one of many great examples of why DRM is terrible for the consumer.
- zyklon, on 07/25/2008, -1/+64"When in doubt and DRM is in the way, you can always count on The Pirate Bay"
- Badman996, on 07/25/2008, -1/+62That's the reason why they are closing.
Looks like all 10 people that bought music from them will be pissed. - zyklon, on 07/25/2008, -1/+59Playsnomore*
- mithrasinvictus, on 07/24/2008, -3/+58This means that some people just got what the hell the rest of us were talking about.
- stoanhart, on 07/24/2008, -3/+55http://bayimg.com/fAjknaaBP
'Nuff said - Branchex, on 07/24/2008, -3/+50They could just make something to strip the DRM out of the songs, but that would be the noble thing to do, thank you RIAA.
Yahoo, can you do anything right? The list of good things about your company keeps getting smaller. - kraetos, on 07/25/2008, -8/+49Oh DRM.
Does the RIAA realize that before Amazon MP3, a huge number of people were pirating not because they weren't willing to pay, but because they hated DRM?
Oh yeah, this is the RIAA we're talking about. Never mind.
***** the RIAA for keeping FairPlay alive. Contrary to popular belief, Apple would drop FairPlay in a second, if the RIAA let them. iTunes Plus anyone? Instead, the RIAA forces DRM upon iTunes customers, hoping to make Apple look like the bad guy, out of pure spite for shifting the music market away from channels they had complete control over. Bastards. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+39I hope you all learned a lesson about buying music! Always go drm free , or no deal
- DJMattB241, on 07/25/2008, -0/+39When I buy music these days, I go with Amazon's mp3's.
Simple downloader, no DRM, properly tagged, cheap too!
CD Baby is great too. - bjornski, on 07/25/2008, -2/+36Once Yahoo! tried to become all things to everyone, people started to realize they weren't very good at any of it.
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 07/25/2008, -0/+30sorry, Amazon FTW. 256 kbps MP3 often times vbr, and low price for albums beats all. Best of all DRM free!!!
- austin63, on 07/24/2008, -1/+30Amazon, not iTunes
- geoff1210, on 07/25/2008, -0/+27I was a musicmatch customer when I was young and stupid, and slightly guilty for pirating music. They got bought by Yahoo. It was near impossible to find the licences unless I was using the yahoo player, and I was logged in, and I jumped through hoops. At that point I uninstalled Yahoo player and proceeded to rip the DRM off those songs. Now if I was the average user, I would be *****.
Nice going DRM. And ***** you. - DontUKnowImLoco, on 07/25/2008, -0/+26This is why I buy DRM-free tracks from Amazon instead of rights-managed outlets such as the iTunes store. Good quality (256 kbit/sec), none of this license management crap or authorization to worry about, and being MP3, isn't confined to one program or brand of music player. Oh yeah, and usually cheaper than iTunes as well.
- bigteebo, on 07/25/2008, -0/+25Attention pirated MP3 music users: There's no DRM server downtime, as there's no server, so keep enjoying your tunes. Thanks, the Management.
- gquaglia, on 07/25/2008, -0/+24The RIAA is laughing its ass off right now. This is exactly what they had hoped for. Now all these sucker that used Yahoo will now have to pay again to get those songs back. Pay, pay and pay again is the real goal of DRM, the whole piracy ***** was simply a smoke screen.
- daebat, on 07/24/2008, -10/+32iTunes is a good concept but it's being marketed by apple which would just LOVE to monopolize everything. therefore you are buried.
- zboyet, on 07/25/2008, -4/+26I abandoned buying DRM music and as a result pretty much abandoned legally purchasing music when my old ipod went out and I figured out I could not redownload my music and that I had wasted tons of money. It is amazing how experiences like this clear your conscious of stealing music.
- IADTatami, on 07/25/2008, -2/+20It's cheaper if you skip the buying part.
You don't have to worry about DRM or rootkits if you skip the buying part, either.
Also, every penny not spent on CDs is one penny less the content companies have to bribe your government with. - FolkTheory, on 07/25/2008, -0/+17or they'll just unfriend you.
- tech42er, on 07/25/2008, -1/+18Matty> Hmm
Matty> A little bored this afternoon
Matty> Thought i'd do an exercise on leasing versus renting
UG> indeed
Matty> Paul Macartney is my subject
Matty> I note according to reports he paid 49million dollars to heather mills for 5 years or marriage?
Matty> Assuming he got sex every night during their 5 year relationship (which lets be honest, probably didnt happen) it would end up costing him $26,849 per time.
Matty> Heather aint exactly the best looking bird
UG> then he's a ***** :)
Matty> Now i also note, Elliot Spitzers call girl, Kristen, an absolute stunner with a body like no other, charges $4,000 an hour. For anything..
Matty> Had Paul McCartney 'employed' Kristen for 5 years, he would've paid $7.3 million for an hour of sex every night for 5 years (a saving of $41.7 million).
Matty> Value-added benefits are: a 22 year old hot babe, no begging, no coaxing, never a headache, plays all requests, ability to put BOTH legs around you (!!!), no bitching and complaining or 'to do' lists. Best of all, she leaves when you're done, and comes back when you ask her. All at 1/7th the cost, with no legal fees
Matty> Sometimes renting makes far more sense..
via bash.org, Quote # 868827 - umbrellainabin, on 07/25/2008, -6/+22***** THE RIAA <
***** THE MPAA
***** THE IFPI
***** THE BFI
***** VIACOM
***** COMCAST
***** MEDIADEFENDER
***** AT&T
***** THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
***** BUSH
***** DRM - grungegbunny, on 07/25/2008, -2/+18To the Yahoo music customers that got suckered into this trap: PWNED!
- renegadeafk, on 07/25/2008, -0/+16*some* drm free music so partial credit. Amazon MP3 still pwns it.
- Kratos76, on 07/25/2008, -0/+16What is this Yahoo you speak of?
- jakiao, on 07/25/2008, -0/+16I was a member of Yahoo Music, and I have over 3000 songs downloaded. A few days ago, after launching YMJ, I was offered to convert over to Rhapsody. I transferred my account using Yahoo's tool, installed Rhapsody, all went well. Upon launching Rhapsody, it scanned my hard drive for Yahoo DRM music and converted it to my Rhapsody account. Rhapsody is able to play all of the downloaded songs from YMJ without problem. It's looking like when you first play the song, it contacts their server and updates your file.
So while YMJ is sinking their DRM keys, it also appears that once you convert to Rhapsody your downloaded tracks will be okay. Although, the import process took for bloody ever. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+16to terry and TheGuru:
a. most DRM removal software (that I have found, anyway) results in loss of quality, usually either a muffled sound throughout the whole song, or one or two REALLY choppy spots.
b. even if I could get perfect results - why the HELL should I go through the trouble? If I bought a song legally, I should be allowed to use it on the media device of my choice without jumping through hoops. And what of people who love music but aren't computer-savvy? They have rights, too =P - ehtony, on 07/25/2008, -0/+15haha ... suckers ... if you keep buying drm music, they will keep selling it.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+15If iTunes has a DRM free version of the song I want, I buy it.
Otherwise I look on Limewire/Torrents for it.
I think iTunes is moving in the right direction, and I hope all of their songs will be DRM free one day. The ability to upgrade older songs to the higher bitrate (and DRM free) was a huge plus as well. - majordanger, on 07/25/2008, -1/+15Dugg for graphic analogies such as "... And someone will step in a bear trap, and then it's time for the bite rag, the alcohol, and the saw."
- DontUKnowImLoco, on 07/25/2008, -1/+15Not really, you usually don't pay the full price of the car when you lease it. If you do, well, then you just got screwed like these Yahoo customers.
- DyceFreak, on 07/25/2008, -2/+16Can you now?
I see... I see... - bastardo, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14They're like the Google of last century...
- bdbr, on 07/25/2008, -0/+12Most likely you signed that away with a terms of service. Its typically how this is done, example (iTunes store):
"APPLE DOES NOT GUARANTEE, REPRESENT, OR WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND YOU AGREE THAT FROM TIME TO TIME APPLE MAY REMOVE THE SERVICE FOR INDEFINITE PERIODS OF TIME, OR CANCEL THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. " - fuzzynyanko, on 07/25/2008, -0/+12I was actually impressed by Amazon MP3. The files are 256 kbit VBR, I have no problems playing them, and they sound great. Most importantly, no DRM
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11Thats a good real-world comparison that more non-techies need to understand.
- DontUKnowImLoco, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11At the same bitrate, yes. However, a 256 kbit MP3 will still usually sound better than a 128 kbit AAC, such as most of the music found on iTunes (the non-iTunes Plus tracks). A 128 kbit AAC file is usually equated to the sound quality of a 160 or 192 kbit MP3 file.
- speakafreaka, on 07/25/2008, -1/+12Does the purchaser have any means of compensation for this?
I know we all knew this could happen, but in reality is there any liability? - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+12I see someone else got the e-mail from Yahoo ;)
(For the record, I didn't buy any music from them - I just "rented" their online radio thing for about a month. Ye gods, did it ever suck.) - bdbr, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11Actually the differences become less at higher bitrates, if you use a good encoder like LAME 3.97 (what Amazon uses). At 256KBPS, it should be pretty much equal.
- wozster, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11Sharing is caring! :D
- bdbr, on 07/25/2008, -0/+10Very, very little of what is on iTunes is "iTunes Plus". Most of it is still DRMed...even music that can be purchased from other sources without DRM. The CEO of Nettwerk has already pointed out that these labels didn't insist on it or even ask for it. Just about any day of the year you can look through the top 10 and not find a single album that's iTunes Plus. If you want them without DRM, you have to go to Amazon.
Jobs said some time ago that the iTunes store was there to sell iPods. Let's face is, the only reason they DRM this anymore is to make it a pain in the ass to change from an iPod to anything else. - fuzzynyanko, on 07/25/2008, -0/+10I have no idea why you were dugg down.
I actually avoided buying digitally-downloaded music until Amazon MP3 came out. I saw iTunes on another Windows box and didn't want it on my computer. I also didn't like the idea of not being able to put songs on my $40 MP3 player (it doesn't do AAC). - bdbr, on 07/25/2008, -0/+10The thing that sucks about DRM is that it penalizes people for doing the right thing. A lot of these people probably didn't even know what DRM was until now.
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