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To: ShadowAce
There's just something counter-intuitive about DRM and FOSS in the same sentence...

Personally, I'm old school. When I bought a tape or record, I owned it and could do what I wished to. I could dub a backup, no questions asked, as long as I wasn't making more than one and trying to sell other copies. I still feel like that when I do pay for a song (which I haven't done in a while - more on that in a bit). I should be able to make what ever copies are necessary for me to enjoy my music... which includes being able to burn to my CD and have it on my laptop or mp3 player at the same time.

In all honesty, I have been so unimpressed with the main-stream music world for so long that I have stuck with indie music, such as Jamendo and Magnatune. Especially Jamendo, as it's free. No DRM is involved - this is a selling point, and I honestly have enjoyed getting gigs of music without all of the theatrics involved.

25 posted on 06/01/2011 7:33:07 AM PDT by pvoce ('Good' sense and 'Common' sense are two entirely different concepts.)
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To: pvoce
In all honesty, I have been so unimpressed with the main-stream music world for so long that I have stuck with indie music, such as Jamendo and Magnatune. Especially Jamendo, as it's free. No DRM is involved - this is a selling point, and I honestly have enjoyed getting gigs of music without all of the theatrics involved.

I think this is a great counter to the above article. The author asks why it's bad to protect content creators, when we are saying that the old business model just doesn't work anymore.

The beginning premises of the debate are just very different.

26 posted on 06/01/2011 7:41:13 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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