TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:27:52 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:op.vxfgdv1ceav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>> 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.

The quality was not bad, it was 360k I believe.  The quality certainly was  
not an issue (even after burning and re-encoding using iTunes).

What was (and still is, since I haven't finished doing it!) an issue is  
the process to de-authorize the content.  It would have been nicer to  
provide a tool to do it instead of making me 1) waste writable CDs, 2)  
waste time burning CDs and 3) waste time trying to figure out what tags to  
put on each song.

But in the end, having playable songs is better than just having to throw  
away the songs, and what am I going to do, complain to some business  
that's going out of business? :)

Yeah, DRM is sucky, especially for things like books and music.  I can see  
it being used for some place that you rent/borrow things  
(library/netflix), but to sell me a copy and not let me do what I want  
with it is crap.

-Steve