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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:29
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http://politechbot.com/p-04993.html
quote:
I just received a harsh lesson in DRM and record label-driven policy that
may be of interest to those on your lists who are Apple customers and may
be leaving the United States in the future. Having purchased a number of
songs from the Apple Music Store while in the US and using a US funds
credit card, I regrettably didn't read the fine print. I've now discovered
that if you leave the country, your songs may just disappear, as mine have.
I've recently moved to Canada and just this week had a problem with my
PowerBook that called for me undertaking a reinstall. After firing up
iTunes and attempting to play purchased songs, I was asked to reauthorize
those songs, using the Apple ID associated with the purchase. No problem, I
thought. This is the Apple Music Store, not PressPlay or MusicNet. I paid
for these songs and they're mine. Silly me. Apparently, if you change your
contact address and/or have your US credit card address changed, as I did,
you are no longer able to play the songs you paid for while on US soil.
After going back and forth with AMS customer support, they pointed me to
the terms of sale policy, and there it is in the very first paragraph:
<http://www.info.apple.com/usen/musicstore/policies.html>
So, shame on me for not reading the fine print. But if you're spending
money with Apple and plan a departure from the States any time soon, your
money would be better spent on little round platters. |
Go Apple, Go Apple...
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Cruddy
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What's the betting MS will have a similar policy for Palladium?
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FrustratedPoet
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All Glory To The Hypnotoad!
Mar 2002
time: 05:29
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That just sucks, plain and simple. I doubt even the Apple fanboys can seriously defend that policy.
Although, how much is this policy decided by Apple and how much is dictated to them by the record industry?
Last edited by FrustratedPoet on 25-07-2003 at 20:11
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CivPatriot
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NE. Georgia, USA
Dec 1999
time: 00:29
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And to use buymusic you have to use WMP 9 and IE and XP home or Pro, sounds like a lockdown on microsoft products to me.
And like the itunes music store its only currenly availble to US residents.
Plus if all ipods can be update via software to handle AAC files shouldn't other players be able to as well?
Last edited by CivPatriot on 25-07-2003 at 20:44
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CivPatriot
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NE. Georgia, USA
Dec 1999
time: 00:29
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The more i look at both, the more i see that they are virtually identical, except in price(which i will openly admit is one of Apple's weak points). You do have two different formats(AAC vs WMA), the difference in audio quality i'm too uneducated to argue about(or to really know about the quality of the two).
I suppose the difference comes down to which player you use(iPod vs every one else, and the iPod is the main player in this market) and if you like WMP(i never have liked its interface personally) or itunes(love it and most people i've known who've seen it or used it does too). There is one additional thing you must have in order to play AAC with itunes, Quicktime 6.2.
In the end, I hope that when the two stores go head to head, the winner will be the consumer. Apple's shown the way, others like buymusic are following, I hope to see prices drop as the two compete(along with the other new stores, but I think these will be the two that are going to fight it out).
one last question, how good are the download speeds off of buymusic? I know that off of the apple store they are extremly fast(as fast as my wifi will keep up).
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mrmitchell
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I'll bet the policy is sleazy industry-boss idea, not Apple idea.
Which is why Apple needs to go back to those "**** RIAA"-type actions like the rest of the computer world is doing, instead of being cowards and giving in.
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CivPatriot
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NE. Georgia, USA
Dec 1999
time: 00:29
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Asher,
thanks for letting me know about the players that you can use, in my haste, i guess overlooked it.
mrm,
apple is trying to hold their own against the record companies, this is the reason that several major artist(Foo Fighters, Metallica) have refuse to sign and use the system, because Apple is demanding that every one have the same rights(all artists get the same deal), and that's not sitting well with the artists and the companties. Honestly, i'm will not be surprised if the Music labels push apple for more restrictive DRM when they put iTunes Music store out for windows. Hopefully people like buymusic and Apple with hold their ground.
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yavoon
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these things won't be that succesful because u have to goto the record companies through legal channels. and the record industry has a baseball bat up their ass about all of this.
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