The problem is that each drm'd song gets authorized for each computer you own. So, if you buy a new computer, format your existing one, buy a new ipod, etc. and try to get your backed up songs authorized on the new(or reformatted) device - yep, you need the internet and apple's servers.
So, yeah you keep you have full access to your music after iTunes closes shop. But not *forever* as "buying" implies - unless your current devices are all you will ever use and never break.
There are a few sites out there working to change the perspective of the masses and open a reasonable store that cuts out the cartels and pays the good artists well.
I've made one of them. It's still pretty early and we're slowly building our music catalog. Our take is we give away free mp3s to people who will rate some randomly assigned stuff. This lets you passively hear a sampling of whats out there. It also lets you find music you might like in a top-25 like interface (that you can sort by everyones ratings, your friends, etc.). http://www.choosik.com/ if anyone wants to check it out. I'd love to hear feedback if anyone has it, too.
I also highly recommend http://www.amiestreet.com/ . Each song starts out cheap(.15, I think) and raises in price as more people buy it.
Thanks. I was thinking of it from the side of our server - we don't send cookies to them non-ssl. But, the act of making the request would send out the cookies from their browser. So, if a logged in user clicked on a link to http://ourdomain/ they would be screwed.
I could be wrong, but I don't think this is true in our circumstances. We have a site that doesn't allow any connections other that https. So, even though we do have cookies set to go through all connections - there is no way to get a non-ssl connection to the site and have the cookies go out clear over the wire.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, because we'd have some changes to make.
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The problem isn't authorizing per-play.
The problem is that each drm'd song gets authorized for each computer you own. So, if you buy a new computer, format your existing one, buy a new ipod, etc. and try to get your backed up songs authorized on the new(or reformatted) device - yep, you need the internet and apple's servers.
So, yeah you keep you have full access to your music after iTunes closes shop. But not *forever* as "buying" implies - unless your current devices are all you will ever use and never break.
There are a few sites out there working to change the perspective of the masses and open a reasonable store that cuts out the cartels and pays the good artists well.
I've made one of them. It's still pretty early and we're slowly building our music catalog. Our take is we give away free mp3s to people who will rate some randomly assigned stuff. This lets you passively hear a sampling of whats out there. It also lets you find music you might like in a top-25 like interface (that you can sort by everyones ratings, your friends, etc.). http://www.choosik.com/ if anyone wants to check it out. I'd love to hear feedback if anyone has it, too.
I also highly recommend http://www.amiestreet.com/ . Each song starts out cheap(.15, I think) and raises in price as more people buy it.
Thanks. I was thinking of it from the side of our server - we don't send cookies to them non-ssl. But, the act of making the request would send out the cookies from their browser. So, if a logged in user clicked on a link to http://ourdomain/ they would be screwed.
I could be wrong, but I don't think this is true in our circumstances. We have a site that doesn't allow any connections other that https. So, even though we do have cookies set to go through all connections - there is no way to get a non-ssl connection to the site and have the cookies go out clear over the wire. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, because we'd have some changes to make.
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