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> wrote:
Nostromo;136862 Wrote:
> Luckily for me, I only bought a couple of albums and a couple of tracks
> on iTunes before finding out I made a mistake. ;-)
That's just it though - believe me it's very difficult for me to
purchase music like this (through iTMS); but it's so damn convenient!!!
I mean, I've been collecting music in one shape or form since the 70's
- first 8-Tracks, then vinyl, then cassettes - and CD was my Rosetta
stone... and I still purchase CD's, but getting music now and immediate
through services such as iTMS is just too convenient to pass up. And I
hate myself for buying it - crappy iTunes compression (.m4p) is no
comparison to CD or even vinyl - AT ALL... but I do it nonetheless....
Waiting days/weeks to get CD's sent to me (when ordering online), or
driving up to the local store and searching hours on end... PFFFFFTTTT
- it's no wonder the iTMS is a success - it's all about
*CONVENIENCE*.
It's all very convenient until you want o use it with something that wasn't sold to you by Apple, at which point you discover the walls aronud the garden. QTFairUse and similar are ladders over the wall, but by my reading of the DMCA, they're illegal (insert IANAL disclaimer here). Of course, most people consider it to be on par with speeding or jaywalking, the barely enforced laws that simply make a mockery of the system until municipal revenues need shoring up, but that's neither here nor there.
I plug them every time this question comes up, but there are other, legal options outside of the Apple ITMS. In particular, check out Emusic, which has a huge collection of excellent stuff. This is where I get the vast majority of my music now. There are a ton of other legal download sites out there, as well as the non-legal.
--
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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