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First thing I am going to say is, I know I am going to catch a lot of crap with this post. That being said, what is all the fuss about with DRM? Maybe I am weird, But I have no problem with it on the music that I buy from iTunes. I wish it [...]
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9 months ago
iTunes Music Store isn't so restrictive as you can easily move music to new devices, but if Apple ever shuts down ITMS you could be stuck with unplayable music. This is unlikely but both Yahoo and Microsoft have turned off DRM servers for music they've sold screwing all their customers.
As a musician you should study business models of how your music is distributed instead of blindly accepting what the RIAA states. DRM has not, nor has it ever prevented copying of music. The one thing that has reduced copying is availability of legal methods of obtaining music electronically. iTunes Plus and the Amazon MP3 store exists because record companies recognize this but don't want to admit it publicly.
The only time DRM is some what acceptable is for movie rentals and subscription services that allow moving content to a portable device, i.e. times when you don't own the content.
9 months ago
9 months ago
And for videos, its stupid. There is no option to burn out to DVD to watch on your tv option. We can burn music CD's out as audio and listen to them on the stereo, but with video we have to buy an Apple TV. That's pretty insane.
I buy a lot of my music of Amazon now. If iTunes has an iTunes plus version I typically decide on price/extras which one to buy. I haven't really had too much trouble with the amazon store so far. They do have a problem with the fact you have to go through so many screens to purchase something you can't get back to where you were looking, but, meh.