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Color me unimpressed. Encoding a buyer's name is fair game. You still have full control of the info you got.
by noamsml 18y ago
Color me unimpressed. Encoding a buyer's name is fair game. You still have full control of the info you got.
- Tichy 18y agoI didn't say that it is not fair, but I think it definitely is DRM. So maybe it is an example of fair use of DRM. I still prefer my MP3s name-free, but that only means that I would pay more for name-free than for named MP3s.
- mattmaroon 18y agoDRM stands for digital rights management. Encoding your name doesn't manage your rights in any way.
- Tichy 18y agoMaybe it doesn't enforce them, but suppose the police scans my computer and finds lots of MP3s signed to Matt Maroon, would it really not matter? (Honestly I don't know - but if it doesn't matter, why encode the name to begin with?).
- mattmaroon 18y agoHonestly my argument was more semantics. It's not DRM. It's something else, and certainly less odious. All they're doing is creating a way to track illegal activity. I wonder what the laws are on selling the track and then deleting it though. Is that as legal as selling a cd, or do you get sign some sort of legal agreement when you purchase the track? I've never purchased a single track online so I don't know much about that.