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From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally
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| January 28, 2008
| Adam Sherwin
Posted on 01/28/2008 3:30:38 AM PST by KevinB
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:30:40 AM PST
by
KevinB
To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:33:09 AM PST
by
KevinB
To: KevinB
Is this legit? Seems so from the number of other articles out there.
To: KevinB
The tactics they’ve been using haven’t been working—they’ll need to do something.
This site is reporting that three of the four have not agreed:
Labels back away from Qtrax
# Warner, Universal, EMI agreements in doubt
# Qtrax may not offer 30 million tracks at launch
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23121891-1702,00.html
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:39:43 AM PST
by
Nickname
To: driftdiver
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:42:38 AM PST
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
To: harpu
Yikes, already posted. My bad. Sorry.
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:46:47 AM PST
by
KevinB
To: KevinB
To: A.A. Cunningham
To: KevinB
[Chorus singing] Haaaallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujaaaah [/Chorus]
;-)
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posted on
01/28/2008 4:44:32 AM PST
by
incindiary
(A Republic, if you can keep it.)
To: KevinB
The article I read said the music contained DCMA (?) rights that prevents it from being copied to a CD. How would this be done without the CD burners help.
To: KevinB
The catch is, you have to download ALL the music in the world. That’s a pretty big file.
To: KevinB
I guess they realized that most music coming out today isn’t worth buying a whole album or paying a dollar per song.
Even if you download the song legally, the copy protection is such a pain that you’d wish you just stole it. My mother has gigs of downloaded music that we can’t figure out how to open anymore.
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posted on
01/28/2008 5:56:23 AM PST
by
varyouga
("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
To: KevinB; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
01/28/2008 5:58:07 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: KevinB
Let's see: they won't play on an iPod, the most popular player.
They promise a solution to that "later", but Apple won't be involved in that solution.
Apple is not going to stand by and support some technical hack that gets around FairPlay.
They use P2P, when means that everybody and their brother can substitute fake files, gorched files, and spyware-infested crap files to all the users.
Yeah, that's gonna work.
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posted on
01/28/2008 6:07:33 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: KevinB
Old news... I’ve been downloading songs from the internet for free for years! /S
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posted on
01/28/2008 6:28:29 AM PST
by
rightgrafix
("Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."- W.Churchill)
To: incindiary
Dear Thief,
That will $12,000 for the use of our intellectual property.
Love,
The RIAA
[Chorus singing] Haaaallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujaaaah [/Chorus]
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posted on
01/28/2008 7:57:36 AM PST
by
Salo
To: Allen In Texas Hill Country
I used iTunes recently for the first time and found that the music was using DRM (Digital Rights Managment). The way to get around it is to burn the iTune downloads to a CD, then to rip them from the CD to WMA, MP3 or other file types if desired.
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posted on
01/28/2008 8:05:12 AM PST
by
lormand
(Paulrhoids(TM) - The Hemorrhoids of American Politics)
To: Salo
So the article is wrong when it says that it would be legal?
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:27:23 PM PST
by
incindiary
(Those who would give up an essential liberty for safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety)
To: incindiary
It was a joke: if the RIAA had it’s way, they’d charge you for the song stuck in your head. :-) There seems to be some controversy involving this service now.
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:36:09 PM PST
by
Salo
To: Salo
Ha, true. Well let's hope they don't try something like that. ;-) I kinda miss the early days when napster was around.
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posted on
01/28/2008 3:39:45 PM PST
by
incindiary
(Those who would give up an essential liberty for safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety)
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