DRM free from Emi (SONY) and iTunes

Nikolas · Mon 02/04/2007 22:29:32

Heard it on the news today and found a relavent (I hope) news site :

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It appears that in order to get the DRM free music downloads though (and higher quality as it appears) you have to pay more. Bastards!

Either way, I love to see what MS and Vista will do next.

RickJ? Are you enjoying the news? I bet you are mate

Haddas · Mon 02/04/2007 22:30:31

Yeah. though i do hear the albums will still cost the same, regardless of DRM or not.

Pumaman · Mon 02/04/2007 23:04:40

I'm shocked to say, I'm actually seriously considering buying music online now...

voh · Tue 03/04/2007 00:40:09

I'd be willing to pay more for the additional freedom and compatibility.

I don't need to pay 10 USD for an album, I'd be happy paying 15 or even 20. Do you know how expensive stuff is here? A regular CD price is between 20 and 25 euro. That's ~26.75 - ~33.50 USD.

So screw that. I just want DRM-free material, and I'd then HAPPILY purchase it legally.

Nikolas · Tue 03/04/2007 00:43:41

So, could this whole DRM plan, be only something to boost sales? I don't mean the cut of of DRM, but the whole birth of DRM etc.

"We show you what we can do! This is the nightmare! Now we're offering a 'better' alternative. All bow..."

something like that?

I'm actually the devils advocate here! I wouldn't mind anything, I don't mind online as mp3 sucks in everyway I can think of, and any compression that looses data sucks in music... Furthermore I love CDs and CD sleeves and all that. I buy my CDs. And rent my films. Andwatch the Simpsons on TV

voh · Tue 03/04/2007 01:00:30

Yeah, just that we're a year behind (at the least) on american shows.

I'm not going to avoid discussions with non-Dutchies about current events in shows we like just because of this. Screw that, I'm downloading it :p

Ooh, Doctor Who S3E1 is done downloading! (okay, so, I can watch that directly as I get BBC, but I couldn't watch it due to work

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scotch · Tue 03/04/2007 05:04:59

I'd happily buy tracks for itunes prices if I could get them in decent unrestricted formats, scene standard mp3 and flac (funny I have to dream of a download service that's up to the quality of the pirates). I've bought mp3s from bleep.com before, and that doesn't even have a lossless option for most things. I'm probably unusual in that I have no love of packaging (game boxes, cd cases, etc...) unless it's unusually excellent packaging, so I'd buy the majority of my data online if it was reasonable. I expect there are increasingly more people like me though, that are pretty much entirely digital, portable and internet connected in their media choices, know how to rip a CD or crack the drm off an itunes file, and will pay so they don't have to.

Of course there's allofmp3 but I'd rather risk being sued than pay someone to pirate for me.

LimpingFish · Tue 03/04/2007 21:07:25

The music on iTunes has just been ripped from CD anyway, as far as I can tell. When they start offering tracks that have been digitally mastered from the original recordings, then I may consider buying music online.

The quality of sound on some CDs seems to be pretty sub-standard anyway, regardless of any further reduction compression may cause.

Maybe it's caused by inferior pressing techniques. :/

RickJ · Thu 05/04/2007 05:43:22

QuoteRickJ? Are you enjoying the news? I bet you are mate

Hehe, I saw this on Groklaw the other day. I knew this would happen sooner or later but thought it would probably be later. The same thing happened in the software industry in the mid 80's when the market soundly rejected what was then termed "copy protection".

In a number of RIAA law suits they (RIAA) are going to have to pay the opposing side's legal fees and expenses. There has yet to be a case that has actually come to trial. It would be hard to imagine a jury being more sympathetic to monster multi-national corporations than for grandmas, single mothers, and cancer patients.

Perhaps they have come to realize the folly of suing their customers, that the traditional means of manufacturing and distributing audio products is rapidly becoming obsolete and that they need to solve their problems through innovation rather than through coercion and intimidation.

I also saw where MS is loosening some of it's Vista restrictions. Didn't read the details because I don't intend to ever use Vista if I can avoid it.

Layabout · Fri 06/04/2007 17:42:26

Quote from: voh on Tue 03/04/2007 01:00:30
Yeah, just that we're a year behind (at the least) on american shows.

I'm not going to avoid discussions with non-Dutchies about current events in shows we like just because of this. Screw that, I'm downloading it :p

Ooh, Doctor Who S3E1 is done downloading! (okay, so, I can watch that directly as I get BBC, but I couldn't watch it due to work )

To be honest, I have no problems about downloading BBC shows. I pay a license fee. I should be able to download it for free! I just so happen to always be working when it's on.