I don't understand the logic of copy-protecting CD's.
If I purchase a copy-protected cd, I cannot play it under certain circumstances; the dvd player(?), a linux box, etc. These are items that are supposed to be able to play audio cd's with no fuss. So if the dvd player won't play the cd, I'm out 20 bucks?
If I download the same music from a p2p network and burn the music to a cd, I can play it in any device that reads the cd-r, and if the device recognizes mp3's, I can burn the music onto a data cd. In this circumstance, I can get the music for free after a minor hassle, keeping the 20 bucks in my pocket.
Where's my motivation to purchase the cd?
Is it because the audio format has been upgraded, akin to how movies were upgraded from vhs to dvd, and the new audio quality is going to utterly dazzle me? No. It's the same old quality. So to be a legitimate cd purchaser, I must risk that my audio devices won't play the disks? And for this risk, I get no extra value?
Where's my motivation to purchase the cd? I have none.
I don't understand why a music artist/music company want to undermine their legitimate customers just so they can have a go at the p2p crowd.
** Then cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of DRM. You've made your choice; now live with it. **
No freakin' chance.
I won't install freakin' operating systems that phone freakin' home. I won't buy freakin' audio compact disks that phone freakin' home or crash my freakin' 'puter.
If this means that at some point I must give up the multimedia show on the local 'puter, then the multimedia show will be given up.
So long as I can keep my Beethoven and my ACDC cd's, the multimedia conglomerates can freakin' declare bankruptcy for all I care.
There are about 12 cd's I've walked away from buying because I don't know which ones are DRM'd and which ones aren't, and if I can't play the suckers in the DVD Player/Computer then I've no reason to buy 'em.
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I don't understand the logic of copy-protecting CD's.
If I purchase a copy-protected cd, I cannot play it under certain circumstances; the dvd player(?), a linux box, etc. These are items that are supposed to be able to play audio cd's with no fuss. So if the dvd player won't play the cd, I'm out 20 bucks?
If I download the same music from a p2p network and burn the music to a cd, I can play it in any device that reads the cd-r, and if the device recognizes mp3's, I can burn the music onto a data cd. In this circumstance, I can get the music for free after a minor hassle, keeping the 20 bucks in my pocket.
Where's my motivation to purchase the cd?
Is it because the audio format has been upgraded, akin to how movies were upgraded from vhs to dvd, and the new audio quality is going to utterly dazzle me? No. It's the same old quality. So to be a legitimate cd purchaser, I must risk that my audio devices won't play the disks? And for this risk, I get no extra value?
Where's my motivation to purchase the cd? I have none.
I don't understand why a music artist/music company want to undermine their legitimate customers just so they can have a go at the p2p crowd.
The CBC? Oh, now there is a bastion of unbiased reporting! Jeeze louise!
** Then cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of DRM. You've made your choice; now live with it. ** No freakin' chance. I won't install freakin' operating systems that phone freakin' home. I won't buy freakin' audio compact disks that phone freakin' home or crash my freakin' 'puter. If this means that at some point I must give up the multimedia show on the local 'puter, then the multimedia show will be given up. So long as I can keep my Beethoven and my ACDC cd's, the multimedia conglomerates can freakin' declare bankruptcy for all I care. There are about 12 cd's I've walked away from buying because I don't know which ones are DRM'd and which ones aren't, and if I can't play the suckers in the DVD Player/Computer then I've no reason to buy 'em.