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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Daffy4u,
What happens if Audible goes bankrupt and shutsdown? What if they decide down the road to only allow the registration of 4 devices? And of course, everytime I register a device about them, I am telling them a little bit about my listening habits. Its bad enough that they certainly track every tune I might download from them (I don't download any or use them but that is besides the point), but now they know how I listen to my music and maybe even when I listen, what I listen to when, etc.
So lets see, besides having lost the right to make clean copies of music I bought for my own use (See the earlier discussions about burning to CD and then re-ripping to mp3s), I have given audible the ability to gain information about my computers and how I use them.
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Bill
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Even though you refer to music, Audible.com sells audiobooks.
If Audible shuts down or goes bankrupt and you have the books backed up on your computer, you would still have the audiobooks you purchased that play on all the devices you had when it shut down as well as on your computer and again the ability to burn CDs of the books (as I mentioned in my post - so you have not lost the right to make clean copies). If they downgrade to 4 devices (still generous), I don't believe it means suddenly means you can't use 2 of your devices if you have 6 (new members would be the ones affected). I'm a legacy member of Audible and can still use my original 7 year old portable device (even though they no longer have that device in their current list) and I pay a low monthly membership price that new people can't get. Audible has been very good at keeping up support for long time members even as technology changes.
As far as gaining information about your computers and how you use them, unless you walk into a store and purchase items with cash, someone, somewhere is going to know something about you (especially on the internet). It's very difficult to fly under the radar these days. Not every company is out to get you or do wrong by you.