Rent Music Over the Net

NerveGas writes: "Financial Times is reporting that two competing services, both backed by major music labels, are about to offer legal music downloads. For $9.95 per month, you can download up to 100 songs per month. The catch? Cancel your service, and you lose the ability to hear *any* of the songs that you've downloaded. There are other caveats, as well - but at least it's a start." So what happens after you've got your hard drive filled with rented music and the monthly fee goes up to $199.95/month? Pay up, or lose it all...

Comments

Why rent when you can buy?

[samael]

www.emusic.com will allow you to download perfectly ordinary MP3 files for $10 a month. you can then do what you like with them.

If you support them, they'll grow and grow...

Many restrictions

[ancarett]

Wired news has also run this story with some more details about some of the services (and restrictions):

RealOne Music consumers will be prevented from moving their music from a PC to a portable MP3 player because of digital rights management technology attached to the files.

There is a limit of 100 downloads and 100 streams per month from the Warner Music, EMI, and BMG catalogs as well.

I wonder what this does...

[tjwhaynes]

Hmmm. Lets see...


cat /proc/asound/card1/pcmloopD0S0p > ! /tmp/output.raw

Now play that funky music and...

oggenc --raw /tmp/output.raw > song.ogg

Wow. Making a copy of this music is gonna be reaaaaallly difficult.

Cheers,

Toby Haynes

Secure Audio Path

[yerricde]

Sound blaster live cards (and probably many others) have the ability to record anything that plays through the soundcard to a wav file.

In order for Windows to consider a sound card when an application opens a Secure Audio Path, it has to have a driver signed by Microsoft, and that driver must turn off all cleartext digital outputs (waveout->wavein, ->file, ->spdif, etc.) while the Secure Audio Path is open. (Read More...)