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1 edit | ...and you wonder why so many pirates? These crappy bitrates besides the DRM is a good case in point.It leaves people who like good audio no choice but to shell out for a whole physical CD(about $19.99 in this area which is monopolized by a few companies) to be legit. You can fire up your favourite BT or Usenet client and find FLAC downloads for free. Another issue, which is one of my pet peeves, is I will not install extra crapware known as DRM to potentially spy on me, lock me out of my own content, or slow down my pc. Sorry guys, if you're going to treat people who buy from you like criminals off the bat because they bought from you, then I won't buy from you. Simple as that! DRM assumes everyone is a criminal, although the only way to get DRM infected is to BUY something, not pirate it. Here the pirate PCs go malware free while these online stores infect the legit consumer. Something just don't smell right here. I'll continue to download then if I like the majority of tracks, I will buy the legit CD and rip it with something that doesn't transfer DRM for when I just don't want to listen to it on a clunky portable CD player(yes, my mp3 player supports FLAC  ). The only reason I do this is I know it's not the artist's fault and they need to eat and should have food on the table for producing good material. It's the RIAA and all the companies they have bought's fault. They see pirates demanding uncrippled content on a daily basis with promises they would buy if they provided it. Yet, the RIAA follows their publicity stunts and fails to provide what people want. I can hope someday they'll see the light, but I won't wager on it. Think about it, does uncrippled content really help piracy? Do a P2P search for all your crippled content in uncrippled form and you will find it. |
