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The author links to his wife's blog post of a year ago in which she says a major part of the problem is the lack of an easy, legal way to access the material in
by noibl 16y ago
The author links to his wife's blog post of a year ago in which she says a major part of the problem is the lack of an easy, legal way to access the material in question. He later links to a site where he says his work is available for instant purchase.
When you visit that site, the first thing you see in Chrome is a giant 'missing plugin' block and an invitation to download the 'Scorch' sheet music plugin, which it turns out is available for IE, Firefox or (on Macs) Safari. JOY.
Further down, you get the following message:
"We advise you to check your printer setup now before you buy. You will only get one chance to print your music after you have purchased it. If you have difficulty printing, please see our print problems help page."
WTF? OK...let's have a look at the print problems help page:
"=== It says Printing To File Not Allowed ===
"Copyright law prohibits us from allowing customers to store image files of the scores on their computers. Therefore, when you buy from us, we only allow printing to paper."
No. Seriously?
The takeaway for me: not only do these people not get filesharing, they don't get computers and their attitude to those who do is one of xenophobia.
- nikz 16y agoTry getting a refund when their crappy plugin crashes your browser... How about the printed copy that's now unusable (because it's, you know, paper, and paper has a habit of getting crumpled or ripped or wet or binned...) Even iTunes doesn't make me pay for an mp3 again if my HDD dies...