Roy Schestowitz wrote:
The scandinavian are already opposing
to iTunes monopoly and DRM. France likewise.
Here's what bugs me. The argument is made that business should be
allowed to make money on these licenses because it can deliver better
products, cheaper and faster to the consumer.
Yet, here I am struggling with the Rhapsody windows client and it's not
been updated in more than a year and it's very buggy tempermental and
flakey. The download can easily crash. And every other time the DRM
database on my Sansa m200 mp3 player (which they specifically promoted
as part of the subscription) gets borked every other time I add music to
it! I end up having to either reformat the DOS partition (which
requires going into Windows Media Player) and/or re-registering the
Rhapsody client.
The good things about Rhapsody are it's indexxed and cataloged very
well, has an extensive library and is relatively cheap (compared to the
potential RAII lawsuit).
Alternative is to be criminal and donwload the music for free using the
beatiful Azureus bittorent client and it works perfectly. I can use it
in Linux or Windows seamlessly. I can simply transfer the files to my
mp3 player (which is able to use the mp3 tags and display and
categorize the artist/album/song correctly.
The bad thing is getting caught, and that the free arena really peters
out once you move away from the really current popular stuff. I mean,
I've had a hard time trying to find some classic rock stuff that's
semi-well known but either not ripped or not indexxed.
Overall, I don't mind DRM -- I just want (a) more money to go to the
artists (b) a system which is not so buggy and cumbersome.
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