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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by drewzero1 on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:25AM (#26915686)
Are you suggesting that it's not? Maybe I'm out of touch with both the state of technology and the general public (guilty on both counts), but last I checked major operating systems all came with CD ripping software included. Do people really not have CD drives any more or something?
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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by ghaff on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:28AM (#26915725)
A fair number of people probably don't have CD drives any longer given you generally don't need them to install software. But you can buy one on Amazon for < $20 so that's certainly not a huge barrier for people who want to.
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Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies by SirSourdough on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#26915988)
It seems like a lot more people have laptops only these days and most new laptops don’t have a CD drive. Neither my 2013 MBP or the desktop I built in 2018 have a CD drive and I’ve never needed one with the desktop and haven’t used one with the laptop since a year or two after I bought it. They are basically phased out for computing purposes it seems.
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