Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges

Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un... by CobrastanJorji on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:53PM (#35175243)

Ah, you're behind the times. You may be remembering 2008 when Amazon had those big "DRM Free" messages and t-shirts and talked a lot about how music wanted to be free. It was a big part of their sales pitch. That faded away, and then some music started using DRM. However, if you purchase a music song or album, you can still mostly download MP3s, as far as I know.

On the other hand, if you use Amazon Unlimited or Amazon Music Prime, you cannot download music as MP3s. You need to use a player that supports their DRM.

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Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un... by hug on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @06:38PM (#35175682)

> On the other hand, if you use Amazon Unlimited or Amazon Music Prime, you cannot download music as MP3s. You need to use a player that supports their DRM.

This seems entirely reasonable: No one thinks that by subscribing to Unlimited that they're actually purchasing a copy of every single song forever. It's very much known that it's a subscription.

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