Comments on: Missing the mark in Australia http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4439 p2pnet.net - reader powered Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4439#comment-11987 Reader's Write Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:29:11 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4439#comment-11987 For the most part I don't think any of the sites mentioned here use DRM, the selection is so absurdly pitiful that you wouldn't want to purchase most the music (or use p2p to acquire it, for that matter) anyhow. As an Oz resident who occasionally can't find something using Xfactor ( http://www.xfactor.cc ), iTunes would be nice to have as a fallback. As someone who still uses a CD Walkman, the fairPlay DRM means very little to me. (You can burn Apple's DRM to CD as many times as you like, and even re-rip that CD if you can deal with a slight loss of in the already compressed track/s.) The most pressing matter here is ARIA's lawsuits against Sharman - where is the legit, 'legal' online download source? Where is the legal alternative? For the most part I don’t think any of the sites mentioned here use DRM, the selection is so absurdly pitiful that you wouldn’t want to purchase most the music (or use p2p to acquire it, for that matter) anyhow.

As an Oz resident who occasionally can’t find something using Xfactor ( http://www.xfactor.cc ), iTunes would be nice to have as a fallback. As someone who still uses a CD Walkman, the fairPlay DRM means very little to me. (You can burn Apple’s DRM to CD as many times as you like, and even re-rip that CD if you can deal with a slight loss of in the already compressed track/s.)

The most pressing matter here is ARIA’s lawsuits against Sharman - where is the legit, ‘legal’ online download source? Where is the legal alternative?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4439#comment-11983 Reader's Write Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:49:57 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4439#comment-11983 mp3 downloads? you can download mpeg 1 layer 3 media files in australia? or are those files really drm-crippled files using another propietary codec? those are _not_ mp3s. mp3 downloads? you can download mpeg 1 layer 3 media files in australia? or are those files really drm-crippled files using another propietary codec? those are _not_ mp3s.

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