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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by adrianN on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:23AM (#33079969)
You could even imagine an automated system where you buy a song for some two cents and then sell it back after you're done listening to it for a one cent. You could have users make their collections available on a market place and pay them some fraction of the profits you make.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by scarface74 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:28AM (#33080879)
Music bought on iTunes hasn’t had DRM since 2009
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:00AM (#33081342)
Depends where you’re based. Japan had DRM on iTunes for some time and also DRM-free songs on iTunes were a paid upgrade globally for a while too.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:28AM (#33093990)
The ability to upgrade was only available for songs purchaseable as DRM-free on iTunes. I still have tracks in my library with the DRM because the distributor went out of business, making it impossible to upgrade.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:30AM (#33094007)
Oh wow. Which tracks?
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:13AM (#33106815)
On Linux nowadays, but last time I was on macOS with iTunes I has an album of Australian folk rock that still had DRM, were still an old bitrate, and not upgradeable to "Plus" (yes, the thing from 2007) or DRM-free.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:34AM (#33106941)
IIRC, Plus was DRM-free.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by terinjokes on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:54AM (#33107057)
Yeah, was so long ago I couldn't remember if they were separate or not.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:09AM (#33107192)
I think most were but also as I mentioned elsewhere on this page, Japan and possibly other countries didn’t go DRM-free for some time so possibly they had iTunes Plus but with DRM.
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