I just have to agree with this post. I would also add that if you want to keep your access to this music, Apple now owns you. Personally, I don't want to be owned by any large corporation. Though right now I can't imagine abandoning Apple products in favor of anything else, seven years ago I would have said I'd never own a Mac. so things do change. And if that day ever comes, I want my music to migrate with me. I'd rather just own the music myself. Then I can take it wherever I want and use it in the way that best suits my needs. Cheers, Donna Cheers, Donna. > On Jul 3, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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