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0 pointsraw_anon_11114mo ago0 comments

You have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.

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bradleybuda4mo ago

“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.

irilesscent4mo ago

It is factually true though, music piracy DID drop once ad supported music streaming became available, the opposite is also true, video/movie piracy is now on the rise due to the amount of streaming subscriptions one has to juggle and their rising prices. Ofcourse there will always be those who yearn for the pirates life, but the vast majority just do it for convenience.

Sohcahtoa824mo ago

I don't even know the last time I pirated music. Gotta be at least 10 years.

Meanwhile, I pirate movies/TV on a regular basis for the reasons you gave. At one point, I was subbed to 5 services, and decided enough was enough. Cancelled all but Netflix and went back to torrenting anything they didn't have.

mrguyorama4mo ago

I've used spotify for a decade. But the other day I opened one of my playlists and noticed that almost all the songs were greyed out as "unavailable" despite a quick search showing those songs still existed.

Spotify rotted my playlists because it didn't feel like updating a database row somewhere when some licensing agreement got updated. Apple will do the opposite: Rot your music collection by replacing songs with "identical" songs that aren't at all.

So I'm thinking it's time to buy music again.

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

And Netflix’s profits have been on the rise for over a decade. I retired my plex server over six years ago. It just wasn’t worth the hassle of finding decent quality torrents. Everything ends up on streaming anyway.

lmm4mo ago

Is that still the case? The option to do that quietly disappeared from Amazon Music a couple of months ago, for example, and they were one of the last few holdouts where you still could. It might be only Apple now?

neobrain4mo ago

There's still plenty of options around, Qobuz and 7digital in particular offer drm-free flac downloads.

bpfrh4mo ago

Quboz, bandcamp, etc.

accrual4mo ago

Bandcamp is still my go to for owning music. Nice platform, just works.

ocdtrekkie4mo ago

I still buy DRM free music from Amazon.

vel0city4mo ago

You've been able to buy DRM free digital music since the 1980s.

saubeidl4mo ago

Technically not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System

rob744mo ago

I think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.

saubeidl4mo ago

My link is to the CD DRM!

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jMyles4mo ago

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels

Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever?

Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009.

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

jdabney4mo ago

ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

Wow. How did I miss that!!!

whstl4mo ago

The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

lurk24mo ago

I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.

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Yodel09144mo ago

I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.

adrianN4mo ago

Piracy went down quite a bit since that is possible.

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bradleybuda4mo ago

irilesscent4mo ago

Sohcahtoa824mo ago

I don't even know the last time I pirated music. Gotta be at least 10 years.

mrguyorama4mo ago

So I'm thinking it's time to buy music again.

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

lmm4mo ago

neobrain4mo ago

There's still plenty of options around, Qobuz and 7digital in particular offer drm-free flac downloads.

bpfrh4mo ago

Quboz, bandcamp, etc.

accrual4mo ago

Bandcamp is still my go to for owning music. Nice platform, just works.

ocdtrekkie4mo ago

I still buy DRM free music from Amazon.

vel0city4mo ago

You've been able to buy DRM free digital music since the 1980s.

saubeidl4mo ago

Technically not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System

rob744mo ago

I think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.

saubeidl4mo ago

My link is to the CD DRM!

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jMyles4mo ago

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels

Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever?

Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

jdabney4mo ago

ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

Wow. How did I miss that!!!

whstl4mo ago

The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

lurk24mo ago

I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.

raw_anon_1111OP4mo ago

A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.

1 more reply

Yodel09144mo ago

I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.

adrianN4mo ago

Piracy went down quite a bit since that is possible.

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