Now wait just a friggen minute....

[tk149]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
You're not wrong. I feel like I've been screwed for trying to get all of my music legit. I'm still going to do it because I want to support artists, but I'm not happy about it. It's PlayForSure DRM for what it's worth. I'd ask for help in circumventing the sync restriction but that would probably be frowned upon on this board. I will search Google myself

You should buy CDs and rip them yourself if you want to support the artist. That way you won't get DRM'ed files.

Winnar.

I have yet to buy a song online.

edit: furthermore - when possible, I buy the CD through/on the artist's website, ensuring a little more gets to the artist.

This approach misses the main attraction of downloading music (legally or illegally) - convenience. Also, if there's only one song on the CD that you like, why would you want to pay $10 instead of $1?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Historically I have always supported DRM, despite having had no experience with it. I got angry when people complained about DRM when it was obvious that in 99% of the cases people were just angry that their piracy was getting harder to get away with.

Which means you get zero fscking sympathy from me. Enjoy your digital sodomy, Fish.

- M4H

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
I like the fact that everything on my PC is now legal, and I'm angry that I will have to resort to illegal measures to circumvent this ridiculous restriction.

The sad part is that by circumventing the DRM on the music you downloaded, it is now illegal again.

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Historically I have always supported DRM, despite having had no experience with it. I got angry when people complained about DRM when it was obvious that in 99% of the cases people were just angry that their piracy was getting harder to get away with.

Which means you get zero fscking sympathy from me. Enjoy your digital sodomy, Fish.

- M4H

lmao. :laugh:


Hooray to pirated legal music.

 

[us3rnotfound]

$100/week on music alone? I'd suggest you find a new hobby.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Historically I have always supported DRM, despite having had no experience with it. I got angry when people complained about DRM when it was obvious that in 99% of the cases people were just angry that their piracy was getting harder to get away with.

Which means you get zero fscking sympathy from me. Enjoy your digital sodomy, Fish.

- M4H

Erm, okay. I've already admitted I was wrong....

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
$100/week on music alone? I'd suggest you find a new hobby.

Heh, that's a pretty unusually large sum. It's been a while since I bought music and there have been a lot of bands that I've wanted to check out but couldn't be arsed going to the music shop. I doubt I'll be spending that music again any time soon (NZ dollars by the way, so like $65USD).

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
Buy used CDs.

i buy used cd's and rip them myself

 

[Schadenfroh]

I could use you DRM gurus to review my Rootkit and Invasive DRM thread and to make suggestions:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1985685&enterthread=y