Derek,
Its nice to play the devil's advocate and all, but I think it would give a lot of people peace of mind to know that in case their hard drive crashes or any other such disaster takes place, they could easily replace the music they have purchased. And if we're gonna take everything Warp says about Bleep at face value, then we can't assume its a security measure against people letting others use their account to download all their licensed music. See this exceprt from the faq: "We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals".
-Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: Eggy Toast <eggy@eggtastic.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:59 am
Subject: Re: [idm] Bleep
quoted 16 lines You pay for each download because they don't want to incur> You pay for each download because they don't want to incur
> bandwidth costs
> for multiple people downloading from the same account. It's just
> web-based, and you don't need to install and use some proprietary
> program,so if I were to buy 5 albums and could download them over
> and over again,
> I could just pass my username and password around until everyone
> downloaded it. Makes sense why they would say "hey, you can make
> as many
> copies as you want, so back up the stuff you download!"
>
> Not sure if iTunes has the same protection or not.
> --
> eggytoast.com : eggtastic.com
>
>
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