Music iTunes/EMI to release tracks without DRM.... at a price

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Thread: iTunes/EMI to release tracks without DRM.... at a price

Stephen Coates 09:52 3rd April 2007

Originally Posted by Harrison:
I didn't realise it was illegal record a vinyl record you owned on to cassette tape. What did the industry and the government think the sale of so many blank audio cassettes in the 70's through to the 90's was for?

Really?

Sounds a bit daft.

We always used to copy vinyl records and CDs onto tapes to listen to the on the Walkman or in the car.

(don't moan that tapes were crap because we didn;t have a CD player or an MP3 player in the early 90s)
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Submeg 23:50 3rd April 2007

Yea, it was all a bit stupid. But hey someone woke up...eventually...
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AlexJ 14:05 13th August 2007

Another example of why DRM doesn't work:

"Google is shutting down its premium video service, leaving users who have bought or rented content unable to view their videos in the future."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6944292.stm
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Harrison 14:24 13th August 2007

The danger of anything that is online signature protected, which is why I only use something that can be cracked! We may own a license now but what happens if the company goes bust or discontinues a product?

This is much like in the future, the MMOs of today will be lost to history and unlike retro gaming of today we won't be able to load them up in years to come to experience them as part of history as their parent component will be long gone.
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