erland;211329 Wrote: > The problem here is of course that the music industry wouldn't allow > this unless the FLAC is encrypted and copy protected in some way so it > is impossible to use it on another computer.
Sure they would. Apple has done the hard work by convincing the music industry that DRM is a hindrance to selling more digital music. I have two major questions, though: Whether they'd charge a premium (as some other online stores do) for lossless downloads? I've never quite understood this pricing philosophy, unless it's to pay for additional bandwidth. You're buying a license to use the music, which is no different if it's 128kb mp3 or full-quality Flac. The mp3s at $1.00 or more each already make albums plenty expensive. Whether there would be enough of a market for lossless music to justify the huge expense of setting up such a store, the disk space to store 100's of thousands of CDs, the huge amounts of bandwidth, the large number of web servers required. Not to mention they may just have to rip the CDs themselves. I'd imagine getting lossless digital files directly from the music companies would be even more of a hassle. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35881 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
