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Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download
Medieval Cow writes "Sir Paul McCartney has a side project called The Fireman and he's just released their new album, Electric Arguments, as a digital download. Why this is of interest to this community is that he released it 100% DRM-free. You can purchase just the digital files, or if you purchase a physical CD or vinyl copy, you are also given access to the digital download. Not only that, but the download is available in 320-kbps MP3, Apple Lossless, or even FLAC format. If you're interested in trying before you buy, you can listen to the entire album in a Flash player on the main page of the site. It's so nice to see a big musician who gets it. Bravo, Sir Paul!"
http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/assets/flv/
I did the work for you in 2 minutes.
If you want, I can uncontain the mp3's from the flv files, so that you won't have to reconvert them to mp3 and lose quality.
But I will just tell you use http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html and do a direct stream copy to mp3 for the quickest way to do this.
One point to make though is that Paul McCartney is the sort of guy who can afford to go DRM free, if this album is ripped, lobbed on bit-torrent and limewire then Macca is unlikely to be out on the streets through lost revenue. Its great that he has done it but the _fear_ of being ripped off is going to be less for one of the biggest selling artists of all time than it would be for the average band.
Kudos indeed, but this isn't just a random artist choosing DRM this is the bloke from the Beatles who co-wrote the first hit for the Rolling Stones and the Frog Chorus.
What the f*** are you talking about "co-wrote this first rolling stones hit" ??? I'm not going to even honor that statement with facts. Better to talk from your mouth than your anus.
Because he's made hundreds of millions of dollars using the old system now it's painlessly easy for him to be relaxed and enlightened denouncing the system that gave him the lavish lifestyle he now enjoys.
Any artist who would be on the streets through lost revenue in his/her sale and fears it should simply not be trying to earn a living through music.
You are supposed to make music because you like to do it, not as a full-time job. The multi-millionaires rock stars didn't exist before the invention of disc records and probably won't exist after that. That was more of an accident. Artists don't have a right to make money from their art, it just happened to work well. I don't have the right to listen freely to their music, it just happens to work well.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
You are supposed to make music because you like to do it, not as a full-time job.
Stallman is that you? Are you serious?
Are you an asshole? Are you serious?
Stallman wrote: "Some people write useful software for the pleasure of writing it or for admiration and love; but if we want more software than those people write, we need to raise funds."
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Beatles or whatever, pop music is such a bore, it has to be free. We just don't need most of the things we buy.