One day I decided I wanted to hear some good ole rock & roll music so I saw an album on iTunes by Sha-Na-Na for 5.99. While I like the convenience of digital downloads I prefer physical copies (whether that be music or movies).
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I can download it to my device but doubt I could grab it from my device and move it to an external harddrive.įor the most part i stick to CD's and DVD's unless something is available only in digital format or is much cheaper (like an out of print CD that costs $50 as opposed to 9.99 downloads). You can't do that with digial downloads.Īs for Amazon, as others have stated you can download to your device on the Amazon Prime app (I also do this with Netflix) and it seems your purchases are always there (example, my kids wanted to see Bon Voyage Charlie Brown and we "bought" it last year on Prime and it is still in my list). Ain't gonna happen! Same with movies - trade in old DVD's for something else. I have yet to see an MP3/Digial Music used store. If this had been a CD purchase I could simply go to the used store and trade it in for credit on something else. Tons of songs! Cool! Nope, not so cool they were all re-recorded versions with a different line-up and I as a consumer had no way to know that based on the information on iTunes. Like I say, anything you can watch or listen to can be permanently recorded in some way.Įverything changed in 1998 with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act:Ĭlick to expand.While I like the convenience of digital downloads I prefer physical copies (whether that be music or movies). I can remember attending the very first press conference introducing Blu-ray, and the head of the Blu-ray Association insisted that they had the most sophisticated copy-protection ever and that it was "essentially unbreakable." Within a month, the crazy hackers had broken it. There's always a way around this stuff if you're willing to do the work. So it's not so much about ethics: it's about the monetary interests of big business and how they want to stick it to the public whenever possible. A vice-president of Tivo told me in the late 1990s that they had been asked not to provide a DVD recorder in their device, but they could record "temporary" copies on hard drive just for time-shifting. I have it on good authority that this is why pressure was put on the Japanese not to market a DVD recorder with a built-in tuner in America during the 1990s.
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In their ideal future, they wanted people to have to pay a certain amount every time a song played or a TV show ran or a movie was viewed. My take is that Hollywood was extremely pissed-off with the 1984 Supreme Court Universal/Betamax decision, and the moment that happened, they plotted to eventually find a way to prevent people from actually owning music, TV shows, and films on physical media. Click to expand.Everything changed in 1998 with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act:ĭigital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia