Hmm... Well, if a company provides a free firmware upgrade to a product I own, and the upgrade fixes bugs and adds features, who am I to complain. I don't think this is evil, I think this is great. Take, for example, the proteus 2000 that I bought a few years ago. Emu systems has provided a few OS releases that have enhanced functionality and bug fixes for free. All I needed to do was download the patch and run it on my PC. I guess the key here is to make it easy to upgrade. I would be a bit pissed if all my presets were erased by the upgrade. But I think the market handles this quite well. If a product sucks, people won't buy it.
My ultimate answer to DRM is to keep my radio...
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I've got a professional dac with an spdif out. If other avenues are closed to me, I can always rip my digital copy from the airwaves. I consider this to be my fallback of last resort if DRM/copy protection closes off ripping from the source media. I realise that the quality suffers, but at least I can get a digital copy without all those stupid DRM restrictions.
The first comercial program I ever wrote was an apple//c spreadsheet called HabbaCalc. Habba systems is, of course, long gone. Who knows where the source code is. I don't have it.
I have a copy of the finished application on floppy, but I no longer have an apple II to run it on. In fact, I haven't booted it up in about 15 years. The floppy could be bad at this point. I just don't know. It would be a shame for me if this program vanished. It's possible that I have the only copy.
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Hmm... Well, if a company provides a free firmware upgrade to a product I own, and the upgrade fixes bugs and adds features, who am I to complain. I don't think this is evil, I think this is great. Take, for example, the proteus 2000 that I bought a few years ago. Emu systems has provided a few OS releases that have enhanced functionality and bug fixes for free. All I needed to do was download the patch and run it on my PC. I guess the key here is to make it easy to upgrade. I would be a bit pissed if all my presets were erased by the upgrade. But I think the market handles this quite well. If a product sucks, people won't buy it.
I've got a professional dac with an spdif out. If other avenues are closed to me, I can always rip my digital copy from the airwaves. I consider this to be my fallback of last resort if DRM/copy protection closes off ripping from the source media. I realise that the quality suffers, but at least I can get a digital copy without all those stupid DRM restrictions.
I'm so used to new jargon in computers, that I first thought that H. S. dropouts refered to some kind of network packet loss problem.
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The first comercial program I ever wrote was an apple //c spreadsheet called HabbaCalc. Habba systems is, of course, long gone. Who knows where the source code is. I don't have it.
I have a copy of the finished application on floppy, but I no longer have an apple II to run it on. In fact, I haven't booted it up in about 15 years. The floppy could be bad at this point. I just don't know. It would be a shame for me if this program vanished. It's possible that I have the only copy.
-Robo-