Quite a novel way of stripping DRM – seems simple ingenuity won again over the brute force that software sometime is ;)

i use MelodyCan and don`t have any problem ;)

Yup, in todays’ day and age, and average consumer with a desktop computer, and some off the shelf software can often produce media with better values than top shelf record industry merchandise.

The problem is, that the current copyright law is so complex, that implementing an easy, one click licensing scheme for the masses may be impossible. :P

Ha, that picture says it all. The “analog hole” is all you need.

When all else falls, all you need is a simple cable. It reminded me of “Is this a crime?”.

– Dave

Crap! This happened once before I think. It looks like a bug in the email subscription plugin. I’ll see if I can patch it or upgrade it.

I appear to be getting notifications every time Elephantman comments, I had about 6 or 7 emails telling me about his comment in the middle of a bunch of comments on topics I hadn’t read yet :?

Checked my subscription list in case it was in there and I’d added it by mistake, but nothing there about subscribing to a particular person’s comments

Doesn’t surprise me there isn’t much ad ware in bit torrent. I personally disagree with the idea of the public trackers; one for safety of data; two for safety from police (consider mistakes, listing the IP’s and such); and also; what about the ratios! If false reporting could happen with Bitcomet then it’ll happen again surely! I personally enjoy register trackers a lot more. Ratios are recorded and people have a reason to seed.

Yeah – that’s the thing. Sony is an extreme example, but this is the trend these days. It seems to be safer to just download a rip of the CD you own from some torrent site, than it is to actually play the CD in your computer.

Surprisingly, most illegal releases nowadays rarely include malicious sofware- and if they do, they usually get flagged by the community so you can avoid them. On the other hand most legal releases contain some weird anti copying software that may or may not call home, fuck up windows and etc..

Artists have been making money for a long time without DRM, and they’ll find ways to do it in the future that don’t rely on technology that is inherently breakable.

Like you say – different methods of distribution will come in. Even now, people will choose to pay a little for stuff instead of downloading it illegally to show support for the band, give them something back etc etc, or just because you know youre getting the real article when you get it straight from the source, instead of a possibly down-graded quality copy that may or may not (depending on the download) also contain something to fuck over your computer.

Having said that, the official stuff can’t always be replied on to not fuck over your computer *cough*Sony*cough*

There’s a way for people to get their stuff, and the artists to get their money without all this DRM madness, record companies need to wake up and smell the.. whatever it is that companies drink in the mornings

Always the advertising. As I may have already said; the sheep.
The damn sheep.

Then consider though, the newer High Schooled generation is using Bittorrent mostly, (unfortunately Limewire is standing in the way of that for all the newbs.)