TDPL is an Amazon Kindle bestseller

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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.

I happened to burn all of them to disk about a week before my motherboard  
fried, so I was glad I did that :)  The only issue is, now when I rip  
them, there is no track information.  So I have to listen to each song,  
then hand-type in the track info.  *THAT* is annoying.

I'm all for DRM-free stuff, it's definitely a better way to go.

-Steve