http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/09/part1-drm-riaa-mpaa-and-a-new-house-bill-thwart-consumers/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/09/part1-drm-riaa-mpaa-and-a-new-house-bill-thwart-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-90050 Dorian Evans Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:29 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/09/part1-drm-riaa-mpaa-and-a-new-house-bill-thwart-consumers/#comment-90050 I am afraid your research is incorrect, at least in regard to eMusic. The tracks from eMusic are DRM-free mp3. I stopped my service a while ago, they simply ran out of tracks I was interested in. They all still play fine and I can easily burn them to CD or copy them to my iPod. I am afraid your research is incorrect, at least in regard to eMusic. The tracks from eMusic are DRM-free mp3. I stopped my service a while ago, they simply ran out of tracks I was interested in. They all still play fine and I can easily burn them to CD or copy them to my iPod.

]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/09/part1-drm-riaa-mpaa-and-a-new-house-bill-thwart-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-89655 Elvis Johnson Mon, 12 May 2008 03:05:08 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/05/09/part1-drm-riaa-mpaa-and-a-new-house-bill-thwart-consumers/#comment-89655 I quote you in your definiation of piracy: "To the RIAA that means that you have either downloaded DRM controlled media usually through a peer to peer service........". I don't believe the simple downloading of DRM protected media from a P2P service itself constitutes piracy. If the P2P downloaders pay for the rights after they download, that's not piracy, right? Also, DRM protected content won't work if you don't pay for the rights, so simply downloading of unusable data can't be piracy. I quote you in your definiation of piracy: “To the RIAA that means that you have either downloaded DRM controlled media usually through a peer to peer service……..”. I don’t believe the simple downloading of DRM protected media from a P2P service itself constitutes piracy. If the P2P downloaders pay for the rights after they download, that’s not piracy, right? Also, DRM protected content won’t work if you don’t pay for the rights, so simply downloading of unusable data can’t be piracy.

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