[TriLUG] buying songs online

[Matthew West]

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That seems to be the problem with purchasing music online. I don't want
to use iTunes, because I want the music in a standard format and
non-DRM. But I don't want to purchase a CD in the store because most of
the time I don't need the whole CD, just a song or two. But, when I used
musicmatch, it seemed to be very fair and would allow you to use the
song however you wanted to. Although I haven't used musicmatch in over 4
years. If you want nice music at low prices, you should check out the
BMG music service (www.bmgmusic.com). I can get great deals on CDs.

Matt

Stephen Roller wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:41 -0400, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
>> I'll second that, be it iTunes, Walmart, Sony, or anyone else who 
>> cripples the music.  Not that it should be an excuse to do illegal 
>> things, but we should all pursue legal downloads, to the complete 
>> exclusion of DRM'ed stuff.  The power of the purse is the only one that 
>> most of the retailers and record companies care about.
> 
> Very good points.  I agree, DRM cripples products.  In my opinion, one
> good way to fight it is to prove it futile.  No DRM is perfect, it is
> all hackable.  So exercise your right to fair use and strip the DRM from
> the products, whenever it is not possible to obtain the products without
> DRM.
> 
> Eventually, this flawed business model will collapse.
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