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Music should not live behind a corporate wall. If your overlords are unhappy with you, or they just decide to turn their servers off, no more music for you. W
by RichardHeart 10y ago
Music should not live behind a corporate wall. If your overlords are unhappy with you, or they just decide to turn their servers off, no more music for you. Want to recover your costs by selling off the music you bought? No. Want to pass it down to your children? Not allowed. Remember the days when you could own and share things? Those were nice days.
These walled "gardens" are slowly reducing the human digital experience into a prison.
- dbbk 10y agoThat's a bit overly dramatic. The Spotify model is just renting vs buying. You still have the option of buying, you have ever since the dawn of the iTunes Store. No one is going to take away songs you have digitally purchased.
- RichardHeart 10y agoThis is the problem. I do not believe iTunes allows you to sell or hand down to your offspring your music "licenses." So yes actually, someone is going to take away the songs you have digitally purchased. Try playing a game on release date when all the drm servers are overloaded as well. The people who didn't pay get to play, while the paying folk do not. Because truly owning a thing means not having to beg to use the thing.
- dbbk 10y agoI was under the impression iTunes songs haven't had DRM for a long time.
- RichardHeart 10y agoPhysical access ≠ Legal ownership