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I'm not buying any downloads, PERIOD, END OF STORY!!! My money will only go for hard copies. If they try to force downloads, we got a real, big problem.
When you download a music file from pay services, you get DRM or digital rights management that restricts how you use the file. Is this a problem for you?
DRM only hurts honest users and tempts those same good people into turning to file sharing networks and share those files even further.Anybody doing all their listening off MP3 files should not be too corcerned about sound quality after all.
When do we get back to having a freedom in this country? We are getting more and more restricted in whatever we do. The corporate lawyers serving the music industry have gone too far. I suggest a full out boycott against these rules and regulations. We once could do whatever we wished with music once we purchased it. I don't beleive anyone has gone out of business because I made a cassette tape or burned a CD from my original purchased copy. The music industry needs to focus on the bootleg side of these issues and leave the law abiding citizen that paid full retail alone. What's next volume and playback frequency limitations?
There are no usage restrictions on LPs, tapes or CDs, if you PAY for a downloaded song, you should have the same rights! DRM protected songs won't even play on my computer, they require something like Quicktime or Windows Media Player, neither of which work on the FreeBSD operating system.