It has come to my understanding as a guy on here posted about not playing roxio or any of the music files when he got a new hard drive. You pay for it, but if you get a new pc, and your hard drive crashes.. KISS YOur music you buy.. regardless of the fact you pay the subscribtion, the fact you pay to download the song individually.. Your time, your money.. Read more hear, this is a good websight as well.
http://www.riaaamnesty.com/riaa_violations.htm
Even if your harddrive does not crash, the occasional format is needed once in while.
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Exactly the reason they make burners.
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That's why if I purchase something I want to be able to burn it or drop it on the mp3 player as many times as I need to. As long as the services limit me from doing that, I will never completely jump on board irregardless of the price. I feel if I pay for it it's mine pure and simple.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
--Victor Hugo
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True, but your burning option might be also limited if there is DRM involved.
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Heh just another good reason for not subscribing to these services.Originally Posted by Wolfie
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
--Victor Hugo
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Exactly why i will avoid it at all costs, although the line out to a recorder will probably be an option. Although why anyone would pay for a downloaded song you couldnt burn is beyond me.
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There is software like total recorder which records whatever your soundcard is playing and optionaly encodes it to mp3. I have seen perhaps 5 or 6 different such apps. So as long as you can play the file once, you can record it, keep it and burn it.
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Alot of these people that buy music online isnt tech savvy, or want to steal. Or know for that matter that people will have hard drive problems and will come to this point where the time, effort, money spent went somewhere else. Even if they are looking to buy a new pc, it will effect them. Drm will limit what you burn, and if you can copy it. You could copy it from the soundcard but if your hard drive goes out before you make a backup.
Well then its our job to teach them how to teach them how.
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I know Windows Media DRM has the option for you to back up your licenses incase you need to restore or move to a new machine. I dont know about any of the other formats. I would have assumed that they all allowed such functionality.
Yeah Rick I have Total Recorder which I used to archive my radio shows and it works pretty good but I just feel if I buy it I shouldn't have to go to all that trouble. I dunno maybe I'm just being lazy... :error
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
--Victor Hugo
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Me too, lol.
If at some point I don't have any other choice then I guess I might consider doing it the hard way. ;)
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Actually I find so much music freely, I cannot imagine needing or wanting to backup some drm music.
For newbies that lose access to bought music, I suppose that's the way of the world. Find a way to exploit a persons lack of knowledge and them have them pay for it. Sad but that's the way the world works and if they come here they might not be newbies for to long and that's good. :-)
As I say I cannot imagine paying for some drm music, but if I did. I'd back it up and since I don't buy that much it wouldn't feel like that much of a hassle.
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Actually, the licenses of DRM files downloaded from pay services such as Napster 2.0 can't be backed up. If you reinstall your computer, even if you don't change of the hardware, it acts as though it's a new computer and uses another license.
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