Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
If DRM is an issue then vote with your wallet and only buy DRM free tracks. There's 3 ok sources (well soon there will be), iTunes, the Zune Marketplace (should be rolled out with the new software), and then Amazon. And of course the vast majority of CDs are DRM free, and will likely offer the highest quality you can get quite a bit of music at.
Let me give you a very similar example.
Sony for instance learned the hard way, I used to be a big NetMD enthusiast. I just loved my NetMD player and what it allowed me to do that other players just couldn't match.
But A short while afterwards, I started detecting the trend in it. First I wasn't allowed to use my NetMD player without Sony's software no matter how hard I tried, I was locked in to their software and I was locked to fsckin windows. Then the NetMD player software started telling me it will allow me to import this MP3 but not that MP3 because it just didn't like them, then I had tracks on my NetMD, my PC hard drive failed and the tracks I really liked and paid money for were stuck on my NetMD discs, I reinstalled the NetMD software on a new hard drive and OS and now I can't take the tracks of the discs because well the Sony software just won't recognize that I own my own tracks.
I got pissed, I called Sony customer services and told them that they stink, I own my Music and no one that I pay money to has the right to tell me how I can handle my own files and music NO ONE. I sold all my players, 3 high end ones actually. I completely discouraged those who would take my advice from buying Sony players (which is quiet a number) and I kept shooting emails to Sony and telling them how I liked hardware and how they paired it with the worst of software and how they needed to get their act together or they will be losing more and more customers like me.
And TBH I don't think I was the only ex-Sony customer that was doing the same either.
Sony sales just plummeted. Demand went down even for MP3 players too, people got sick of their policies and started going with other manufacturers that gave them more control, they then got the message.
So years went by, then out of now where, I got an email from Sony Electronics that now their software allows me to do what I wanted to do exactly and that they appreciated my feedback.
So with that resolved Sony players can be purely used without their stinky software. I can plug in a Sony player into any PC that supports USB storage devices then drag and drop my music and I am done.
I really love the hardware on their small MP3 sticks, they are very easy to control without looking at and usually feature an OLED. Now, I think I might just pick me up a Sony MP3 player stick to hookup to my Car's AUX and enjoy the good hardware without worrying about the crappy restrictions.
So why support companies that are pushing this ugly and user's rights abusing technology into the mainstream? Before you know it, if you keep making them money by buying Zune's and whatnot, everything will follow that trend and everyone would be screwed, heck you might run out of places that can sell you DRM free MP3's at some point, the lobbying is strong and places like Amazon and what not might not be able to stop it with all the lobbying behind it.
DRM makes sellers more money and they will utilize all that is in their power to force it upon the sheep of this world.
Just don't be a sheep, have the courage to tell crap that it is crap and have will power, otherwise you will get screwed before you know it and it would be too late.
Sorry if my post is on the extreme side of things, but this is reality, corporations will take advantage of their customers whenever the customers will allow them to. The customers at the end always have the purchasing power and they say what stinks and what doesn't.
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