I hate to say "I told you so," so I'll just say "duh"

[SteveDallas]

When you're considering buying DRM-infested digital content, please remember that you're usually giving the company selling it permission--explicit or not--to just turn off your access to what you just paid for.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26...tting-dow.html

(This isn't the first... Yahoo Music did the same thing earlier this year.)

[BigV]

Dude, you only had a license to *listen* to it... it's mine(drm holder's, not your stoopid), all mine! you listened to it and now it's gone. quit cryin.

what a looooad of crrrraaaaap.

[SteveDallas]

I suppose we should consider ourselves fortunate they didn't exercise their option to excavate memories of the music from our heads.

[BigV]

YES!

that's right. We're all holding stolen intellectual property. Well, except me. they buy me books and buy me books and all I do is eat the covers off.



Which then pass. I'm not holding nuttin.

[Clodfobble]

I'm assuming you all object as strongly when any program developer stops supporting their older programs?

Important things to take note of in the article:

1.) The songs will continue to work on the computer they are on now, you just will be unable to burn them or move them to a different machine after the deadline they have warned you about.
2.) This whole thing is coming about specifically because they have stopped selling music with any DRM protection since last February, and are phasing out the ill-advised technology.

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I'm assuming you all object as strongly when any program developer stops supporting their older programs?

Point well taken, but there is a fine line between "[not] supporting their older programs" and turning off stuff they sold barely a year ago. Are my old copies of "Life & Death" and "Microsoft Flight Simulator version 1" from the mid 1980s "supported" at the moment? No. But there's nothing to stop me from installing them on any compatible hardware I own. (And the lack of compatible hardware is likely to be more of a hurdle than anything the vendors did.)


You're right that being able to continue playing the music is nice, and that not selling DRM anymore is a positive development. It still doesn't make me eager to buy music that's DRM-enhanced.

[Elspode]

You'll by God buy what we tell you to buy, when we tell you to buy it, at what price we demand, and you'll by god buy it again when we tell you to.

That's the American way, you know...making you pay for the same repackaged crap over and over again.

Otherwise, someone would have to have an original idea, and then no one would make any money.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I refuse to believe that music you have on your computer can't be "lifted" off that computer in some way... unless it really isn't there. What kind of half-assed hackers are ya anywho?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Elspode

You'll by God buy what we tell you to buy, when we tell you to buy it, at what price we demand, and you'll by god buy it again when we tell you to.

That's the American way, you know...making you pay for the same repackaged crap over and over again.

Otherwise, someone would have to have an original idea, and then no one would make any money.

I'll buy something again if the new version has a laser on its head.