+1.
I've tried cracking the DRM with stuff like Sound Taxi with no luck.
They've apparently modified/strengthened the DRM protection which sucks,
but somebody will come up with a workaround soon.
95% of my offline music collection is in FLAC. I cannot comprehend
depending on streaming services to deliver my music. £10 per month is
ridiculous - and I don't own a local, non-protected copy of any of my
tracks while I am subscribed.
Streaming music appeals to many because they think they're getting a
good deal and don't have to torrent stuff all the time. Same thing with
Netflix. If people are happy with that then it's really their choice,
but why wouldn't you want to own a local copy of material? What if the
internet dies, you're capped, you have a slow connection etc?
Finally, if I want to support an artist I'll make an effort to meet them
and find alternative ways of donating to them, rather than purchasing
from a company who takes a 30% cut of the funds. That is just wrong, and
same goes for developers who make incredible apps and are forced to
upload their apps in the app store. Apple don't deserve 30% of a cut.
Not even payment gateways take that much.
-Shaf
On 7/3/2015 2:24 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
DRM is evil. Apple DRM is no exception, even if they’ve probably invented the
least annoying kind of DRM there is, it’s still DRM and it still restricts you,
all in the name of artificial market differentiation. Which is wrong, and evil.
As to Apple Music, I can see myself using it for discovery, but I’ll never
allow my library to become tainted with the content. It’s just too great a
risk, for me and I think for others; if streaming becomes popular and therefore
exclusive, music ownership will be lost forever. Also, it’s fairly well known
that streaming and rentals don’t help artists nearly as much as purchases,
because there’s fierce competition on the margins and of course the listening
tastes of listeners are not nearly as uniform as one might hope for the artists.
So, yes, very awesome, but let’s not forget what this is about: you’re paying
for a closed service that will end when you stop paying for it. Online or
offline, indistinguishable from the real thing or not, the service is either a
way for you to stay locked in, or a way for you to purchase songs. And it’s
all thanks to DRM. I’d have hoped for a thousand other different models that
reconciled reality with market desires, perhaps involving lossless formats or
automatic purchases of offline downloads, but there it is. Please don’t fall
into the trap of thinking you own anything you listen to on Apple Music.
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