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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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|  MS decision places expiration date on song libraries.
 I guess if Google can treat their customers that way Microsoft can do the same. It is time for a class action suite and a digital consumer's bill of rights. As I said before the RIAA would like to make purchases of copyrighted music pay per play, like Digital Video Express wanted to and were capable of doing to DVDs. Unfortunately for customers that purchased Digital Video Express DVD's, were not able to use them after the company went belly up and turned off their authorization/billing server.
On the other hand there are the following obsolete formats: RCA Tape Cartridge System, RCA Select-A-Vision video playback system, 78, 33 1/3 and 45 RPM Records, Four Track Tapes, Eight Track Tapes, Reel to Reel Tapes, Laser Discs and El Cassettes. The only obsolete formats for which new players are still available are for 78 (Thorens Turntables), 33 1/3 and 45 RPM Records. | |
ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| said by Mr Matt  :On the other hand there are the following obsolete formats: RCA Tape Cartridge System, RCA Select-A-Vision video playback system, 78, 33 1/3 and 45 RPM Records, Four Track Tapes, Eight Track Tapes, Reel to Reel Tapes, Laser Discs and El Cassettes. The only obsolete formats for which new players are still available are for 78 (Thorens Turntables), 33 1/3 and 45 RPM Records. In this case, however, there's a difference. With the formats listed above, hardware manufacturers have simply stopped making the playback hardware, but there is nothing stopping someone from building new players, nor is there anything stopping you from buying as many players as you want to ensure that you will be able to continue playing back your media.
In the case of MSN Music, you're essentially being told that you can't buy any new playback hardware. Not only that, but if you make a change to your existing hardware, such as changing the OS, it will no longer work, even though it is completely capable of working.
I'm not advocating piracy here, but I have to ask the following question: Why should people follow the "rules" and pay their hard-earned money for "legitimate" media when the suppliers are able and apparently quite willing to reward them by kicking them to the curb and essentially stealing back the media they paid for? These people could have downloaded pirated content for free, but they wanted to do the right thing, so they paid for content. And what did they get in return? They got screwed. | |
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