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Originally Posted by surur
I think Napster etc are quite clear about renting the music, and its actually the more honest service, whereas iTunes pretend to sell you music, but with so much DRM restrictions that in effect you do not really own what you are paying for.
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Have you looked at what iTunes lets you do, compared to other services? If you compare it to Real's or Napster's DRM restrictions, it is much more reasonable... It allows CD burning, more computers, and more players (although restricting it to only the iPod - but if you didn't have an iPod, would you really use iTMS? Probably not).
Sure it still sucks (all DRM sucks), but it's better than the alternatives at the moment. With Napster's subscription based services, as you were implying them to be 'better', you cannot burn CDs at all, according to the EFF guide. Seems being able to burn an audio CD will help alleviate the issues of if they ever change the restrictions, you can always get the copy you (hopefully :P) burned to a CD, and just rip it to a non-DRM format - or just use Hymn and skip the DRM altogether.
And really, think about the subscription model - you have to pay X dollars a month,
forever just to listen to this music. That's
for as long as you live. Or until someone cracks the DRM, so you can get busted by the DMCA.
And on the 'honesty' point, I have to say that it's my opinion that
all of them are trying to trick you into believing you have any real rights.