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I'd have a lot more sympathy if the music industry didn't try all of the worst available options to handle piracy for years and years. They had many opportunit
by xmcp123 10mo ago
I'd have a lot more sympathy if the music industry didn't try all of the worst available options to handle piracy for years and years.
They had many opportunities to get out ahead of it, and they squandered it trying to cling to album sales where 11/13 tracks were trash. They are in a bed of their own making.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoYou have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.
- jMyles 10mo ago> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever? Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoYour link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009. https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/ While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format
- jdabney 10mo agoALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/ https://macosforge.github.io/alac/
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoWow. How did I miss that!!!
- whstl 10mo agoThe "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple.... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple
- lurk2 10mo agoI remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoA way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.
- pcthrowaway 10mo agoIs burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?
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- whstl 10mo agoIf the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK. Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.
- Yodel0914 10mo agoI don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.
- vel0city 10mo agoYou've been able to buy DRM free digital music since the 1980s.
- saubeidl 10mo agoTechnically not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System
- rob74 10mo agoI think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.
- saubeidl 10mo agoMy link is to the CD DRM!
- masfuerte 10mo agoThis is rather misleading. Standard CDs as sold had (and have) no DRM. The scheme you link to is intended to prevent further copies of CD-Rs but you can copy a CD you bought as often as you like.
- mirashii 10mo agoUnless the CD comes with a root kit that interferes with that copying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
- lmm 10mo agoIs that still the case? The option to do that quietly disappeared from Amazon Music a couple of months ago, for example, and they were one of the last few holdouts where you still could. It might be only Apple now?
- neobrain 10mo agoThere's still plenty of options around, Qobuz and 7digital in particular offer drm-free flac downloads.
- ocdtrekkie 10mo agoI still buy DRM free music from Amazon.
- bpfrh 10mo agoQuboz, bandcamp, etc.
- accrual 10mo agoBandcamp is still my go to for owning music. Nice platform, just works.
- bradleybuda 10mo ago“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.
- irilesscent 10mo agoIt is factually true though, music piracy DID drop once ad supported music streaming became available, the opposite is also true, video/movie piracy is now on the rise due to the amount of streaming subscriptions one has to juggle and their rising prices. Ofcourse there will always be those who yearn for the pirates life, but the vast majority just do it for convenience.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoAnd Netflix’s profits have been on the rise for over a decade. I retired my plex server over six years ago. It just wasn’t worth the hassle of finding decent quality torrents. Everything ends up on streaming anyway.
- Sohcahtoa82 10mo agoI don't even know the last time I pirated music. Gotta be at least 10 years. Meanwhile, I pirate movies/TV on a regular basis for the reasons you gave. At one point, I was subbed to 5 services, and decided enough was enough. Cancelled all but Netflix and went back to torrenting anything they didn't have.
- mrguyorama 10mo agoI've used spotify for a decade. But the other day I opened one of my playlists and noticed that almost all the songs were greyed out as "unavailable" despite a quick search showing those songs still existed. Spotify rotted my playlists because it didn't feel like updating a database row somewhere when some licensing agreement got updated. Apple will do the opposite: Rot your music collection by replacing songs with "identical" songs that aren't at all. So I'm thinking it's time to buy music again.
- adrianN 10mo agoPiracy went down quite a bit since that is possible.
- potatoicecoffee 10mo agothey made cd singles and single song purchases long before streaming