Comments on: Puretracks starts offering DRM free music http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/ News, Insights, and Humour Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: H. Hamster http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17751 H. Hamster Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:22:40 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17751 Steve Jobs' Evil Twin: Not to pedantic, but if no money is exchanged, it is NOT illegal to download songs in Canada. Copyright infringement is a civil issue, not a legal one. Pretty effective brainwashing on the part of RIAA and CRIA. Steve Jobs’ Evil Twin: Not to pedantic, but if no money is exchanged, it is NOT illegal to download songs in Canada. Copyright infringement is a civil issue, not a legal one. Pretty effective brainwashing on the part of RIAA and CRIA.

]]> By: Steve Jobs' Evil Twin http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17513 Steve Jobs' Evil Twin Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:14 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17513 typo....I guess that should be Jobs'.... typo….I guess that should be Jobs’….

]]> By: Steve Job's Evil Twin http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17512 Steve Job's Evil Twin Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:04:57 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17512 It is the first step to getting rid of DRM overall. If people legally buy a copy of a song they should be able to duplicate it onto all of the devices they want to use. For now people will just go and illegally download songs because then they can do just that. It will probably be a while until we see it completely gone.... until then.... Limewire is calling your name. It is the first step to getting rid of DRM overall. If people legally buy a copy of a song they should be able to duplicate it onto all of the devices they want to use. For now people will just go and illegally download songs because then they can do just that. It will probably be a while until we see it completely gone…. until then…. Limewire is calling your name.

]]> By: Steven Hodson http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17468 Steven Hodson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:50:44 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17468 I'm not sure what is going on as I don't use the service myself. But definitely something to keep a close eye on and not take them at their word. Boing Boing will be keeping a very close eye on it now that this has surfaced. I’m not sure what is going on as I don’t use the service myself. But definitely something to keep a close eye on and not take them at their word. Boing Boing will be keeping a very close eye on it now that this has surfaced.

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17465 Saskboy Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:34:24 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17465 I took their newsletter to mean that they'd be adding MP3s, and they might not be available for what you want yet. Perhaps tomorrow or by the 27th they'll have them available? If not, I'll certainly withdraw my endorsement, and heap scorn upon them like I have never done before. I took their newsletter to mean that they’d be adding MP3s, and they might not be available for what you want yet. Perhaps tomorrow or by the 27th they’ll have them available? If not, I’ll certainly withdraw my endorsement, and heap scorn upon them like I have never done before.

]]> By: Steven Hodson http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17464 Steven Hodson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:20:24 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/02/22/puretracks-starts-offering-drm-free-music/#comment-17464 don't get out that credit card yet Saskboy. while they are saying this it is also coming out that they may be more than a little misleading. As it turns out all Puretracks songs are possibly crippled with Windows DRM http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/22/canadian_download_st.html http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/22/tech-puretracksdrm-20070222.html?ref=rss don’t get out that credit card yet Saskboy. while they are saying this it is also coming out that they may be more than a little misleading.

As it turns out all Puretracks songs are possibly crippled with Windows DRM

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/22/canadian_download_st.html
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/22/tech-puretracksdrm-20070222.html?ref=rss

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