Subj : Re: itunes
To   : hollowone
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Nov 03 2024 17:33:32

  Re: Re: itunes
  By: hollowone to Ogg on Sun Nov 03 2024 08:46 am

 > Another warning for purchasing audio online.. unless you have ability to
 > have un-DRMed version to be downloaded for offline maintenance, then there
 > is no buy from my side.

This is also my policy, and not only for audio.

I recently wrote an article about videogame preservation and it made me realize some of the biggest obstacles to running legitimate copies of videogames from 20 years ago were copy-protection mechanisms. Some games were distributed on CDs with deliberatedly bad sectors, stuff like that. Worst offenders were the ones that had the data recorded according to a certain topography and the game would check you had a CD with the correct topography in the tray. Fast forward 15 years and modern computers can't cope with those mechanisms so the game does not play.




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