“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
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RE: "Creative Terrorism"
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RE: DRM Marketing WTF: Zune and PlayForSure
Pretty much -- but it IS legal, depending.
The bigger WTF is the fact that places like iTunes/etc. aren't selling you a copy of the song even if they may market that way. The biggest thing is, that if you actually owned your copy, even DRM protected, you can legally re-sell that copy at any price you like and they would HAVE to transfer the DRM license to the person you sold it to. They get around this by writing their agreements as though they are a pay-per-view type service--you are actually purchasing the right to LISTEN to the song on your computer, not the song itself.
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RE: DRM Marketing WTF: Zune and PlayForSure
@dlikhten said:
Sweetness, but tunebite is not legal to use :(, but you won't get tracked using it. Its like the cable boxes who claim to legally rip-off cable, its theft of service, not tampering with the box thats illegal in that case.
Well..... yes and no. "Copyright Protection Circumvention" is illegal under copyright law in the U.S. -- however making a recording of a copy protected work that is played legally to be used under the rights of Fair Use isn't. It's this gray line of sorts.