TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Jun 21 12:27:52 PDT 2011


"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:04:13 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Am 21.06.2011 01:37, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away.
>>>
>>> Sadly, any DRM books you buy on the Nook aren't usable on the Kindle and
>>> vice versa.
>>
>> (I sent this reply yesterday, but it seems like the server lost it)
>>
>> DRM is generally a bad idea - especially for stuff you buy and not just
>> rent.
>> Once the DRM servers are down (because the company is bankrupt or stops
>> the service) your books/music/movies/... are gone.
>
> This actually happened with Yahoo music.  I had about 60 songs in Yahoo 
> music (used to be MusicMatch) that had DRM in them when they decided to 
> close up shop.  Want to know what their solution was?  Burn them to CD and 
> then re-rip them.  Imagine that, a music download site *promoting* 
> removing the DRM from music!  After a certain date, if you hadn't done 
> that, and your computer crashed, you were SOL.
>

Heh, so the only way Yahoo allowed you to keep the music you legitimately 
bought is by degrading the quality (I'm assuming they weren't lossless to 
begin with?). About what I'd expect from those yahoos.





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