On 2011-06-20 15:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:49:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > > "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message > > news:ito7i8$1tb7$1...@digitalmars.com... > > > >> On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >>> I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. > >>> Than > >>> again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory > >>> and > >>> all that...) > >> > >> Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music. > > > > Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable > > music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or > > MP3. I > > know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were > > charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could > > rip > > the DRM out myself). > > iTunes (at least the music part of it) is DRM free. You can no longer > download DRM'd songs from apple (and you can re-download DRM-free versions > of any songs you purchased before they made this change for free). > > Yes, they are charging more for some songs, and less for others. But as > far as I know, there is no fee for removing DRM. The increase in price > was a compromise to get the artists to agree to remove DRM from all the > songs. They are also charging less in some cases (but probably only on > songs nobody wants :). The increase is not exorbitant. From what I > remember it was 1.29 instead of .99 per song. I don't know the exact > details, I haven't bought many songs from iTunes, my current ripped tracks > are usually good enough :)
Personally, I don't deal with any download-to-own music, because they always seem to sell it in lossy formats. When they actually start selling music in a lossless format like FLAC, then I might start looking at them. But until then, I might as well just buy the CDs and rip them myself. - Jonathan M Davis