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Originally Posted by emellaich
On the other hand, remember that Sony used to have a music store and then they closed it down. If you bought copy-protected music from their store, and you have since bought a new music player, you are now out of luck. Unless of course, you remove the DRM yourself.
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I'd just like to point out that you are allowed to burn music tracks bought from the Sony Connect store to CD seven times. You have a legal way of removing DRM, albeit, if you bought a lot of tracks, it's a waste of blank CDs especially if you're going to rip them to your PC again.
I think Amazon's method of just banning people from their store isn't the best way to handle things. What they could do is make the account restricted, especially if the user bought some digital items (Unbox videos, Kindle ebooks). If there are pre-existing gift certificates on the account, allow them to use up the value of the gift certificate, but don't allow them to add more. Ban them from making returns. However, the most important thing they should be allowed is access to already purchased digital content. Regardless if they are abusers or not, they've already paid for (access to) digital content. At the very least, give people, say, a 30-day grace period so they can download all digital content they've already bought before disallowing access to their account.
I'll still buy from Amazon, but any high-ticket items (e.g. HDTV, etc), I don't think I'd consider buying from them anymore.