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From:
Alan R. Lucas
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Date:
Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:06:14 -0500
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Re: [idm] Bleep... my 2 cents
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Just out of curiosity, is allofmp3 really legit? I find it very hard to believe that someone like Sony (or even Warp for that matter) would allow these people to make Sony material available for download, especially sans-DRM. Especially when they're going to be opening up their own download store sometime in the near future. And my guess, given Sony's history with ATRAC and MD restrictions, is that material you download from them will have some serious copy limitation and other bullshit. Maybe Russian law gets allofmp3 around this somehow? Later, Alan Quoting rephlex@pubnix.org:
quoted 29 lines First of all congratulations to Warp for giving this venture a try. I> First of all congratulations to Warp for giving this venture a try. I > believe that Warp is taking a first step into the right direction in > distributing music over the internet. iTunes has been on the block for a > while now but I for one will not buy into ANY sort of DRM scheme period! > Why on earth anybody would pay for music that is worse than CD quality > and > severely restricts the end-users usage is beyond me. Kudos to Warp for > keeping the content DRM free. Now to the bad news. Warp is more than > misleading with their statements in the FAQ. Bleep.com is not the only > store offering high quality MP3 files over the net. In fact allofmp3.com > has probably the best quality music files for purchase at the moment. On > the fly encoding, MP3 up to 384kb/sec, lame standard, extreme and > insane, > AAC, MPC, WMA, OGG they got it all. And the price is certainly > unbelievable too. A mere $5 for 500mb. I could download all the Autechre > CDs they have for five bucks. > > Nonetheless I appreciate Warps efforts and hope this venture will work > out > for them. > > -MarcW > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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