Phil Leigh;347719 Wrote: > I'm sorry but this thread is ridiculous. DRM is dead. Anyone who bought > DRM tracks made a classic purchasing error (sorry, but it's true - if > you knew then what you know now would you still have bought the drm > tracks?). You have a legacy format... one that will soon not be > supported. Just like Betamax, DCC, DAT etc. In this case the problem > was not technical, it was ethical. > > Anyway, SD should concentrate on supporting drm-free music as they > always have done - indeed as they have always been forced to do... > > It's over. Forget it. > You have two choices: buy the music again, DRM free, or...
Well put. :) What bothers me is that the DRM pervayers (Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, whoever....) do not make it SIMPLE and PLAIN that the music being purchased may well (and very likely) not be playable on others devices. >From a profit & marketing perspective I can understand why they would not want this to be known up front to the buyer. Only after they have the customer "hooked" with 100's or 1000's of downloads does the buyer realize they are now stuck with that sources products for future playback. These forums alone, with numerous others all over the internet, are filled with the wide eyed consumers learning for the first time that they cannot utilize their purchased music on such great devices as what SD offers because Apple has repeatedly turned down SD's request to license their proprietary encoding. And why should they? Why let the consumer buy an SD device when Apple could be selling one of their devices? :) -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
