Comments on: Amazon MP3 downloads http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: p2p user http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427/comment-page-1#comment-181655 p2p user Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:58:10 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427#comment-181655 Wordpress keeps thinking I'm making a duplicate comment and I can't post the comment below, even when I change it slightly. Maybe it will post now? Jon: Amazon tracks are apparently not DRM free: they are digitally "fingerprinted" or "watermarked". The bastards *still* won't let go of DRM. See this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/amazon_music_store_opens/ However, looking at the Amazon terms of use, http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200154280 I don't see anythng there that mentions watermarking or fingerprinting of files. It simply states that they are DRM free. If this is truly the case, then I will buy some tracks off Amazon to show my support for DRM free music downloads. Can anyone verify whether watermarking really exists on Amazon downloads or not? Wordpress keeps thinking I’m making a duplicate comment and I can’t post the comment below, even when I change it slightly. Maybe it will post now?

Jon: Amazon tracks are apparently not DRM free: they are digitally “fingerprinted” or “watermarked”. The bastards *still* won’t let go of DRM.

See this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/amazon_music_store_opens/

However, looking at the Amazon terms of use,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200154280

I don’t see anythng there that mentions watermarking or fingerprinting of files. It simply states that they are DRM free. If this is truly the case, then I will buy some tracks off Amazon to show my support for DRM free music downloads.

Can anyone verify whether watermarking really exists on Amazon downloads or not?

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427/comment-page-1#comment-181613 Jon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:41:45 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427#comment-181613 "The lead graphic shows a Zune behind the iPod… But that’s beside the point." (Sickly grin) So you spotted today's deliberate mistake, eh? (cough, cough). Well done! (blush). Ahem ..... “The lead graphic shows a Zune behind the iPod… But that’s beside the point.”

(Sickly grin) So you spotted today’s deliberate mistake, eh? (cough, cough). Well done! (blush). Ahem …..

]]> By: Julian Bond http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427/comment-page-1#comment-181541 Julian Bond Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:43:39 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427#comment-181541 At last we've got some real competition for iTMS with a product thats actually worth buying. 256Kbps VBR non-DRM MP3 is a good enough format. And there's quite a lot of whole albums available at well below the $0.89 per track. What we need next is a good old fashioned price war until the price drops to AllOfMp3 levels. At last we’ve got some real competition for iTMS with a product thats actually worth buying. 256Kbps VBR non-DRM MP3 is a good enough format. And there’s quite a lot of whole albums available at well below the $0.89 per track.

What we need next is a good old fashioned price war until the price drops to AllOfMp3 levels.

]]> By: erm http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427/comment-page-1#comment-181525 erm Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:55:52 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13427#comment-181525 The lead graphic shows a Zune behind the iPod... But that's beside the point. The lead graphic shows a Zune behind the iPod… But that’s beside the point.

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