@bot@marine@djsumdog most people would rather pay $X a month for entertainment services than own things. it's monstrously cheaper for the average consumer. the consumer did this to themselves.
@PurpCat@marine@djsumdog@bot I give most mainstream places another year or two at most assuming they haven't already divested themselves of physical media entirely like (say) Best Buy has
@bot@djsumdog but then what if i get a new computer? What if my hard drive fucking eats it? Then what?
Oh, have to go back to apple, a company that can die at any time realistically, to download it again. Then what happens if they go bankrupt and they no longer have the music i paid for? What then?
What if wherever i downloaded it to dies after their company goes under? Come on, i should have permanent access, until I die. I should be able to pass it onto my kids on a hard drive.
You understand the shortcomings of relying on a company to manage your content yet?
You do not lose your content because you are given the ability to download it and store it yourself, that's literally the entire point of the transaction. Your argument is basically "my theft is justified because companies don't last forever", and it's a bad argument.
@bot@djsumdog this is outright willful ignorance atp. I’ve explained already that if a company goes under, you lose your content. Do you understand that??
Already answered, make a back up. You're not paying Apple to make it available to download for all eternity, you are paying them for a license to the song, which they give you without DRM.
@bot@djsumdog do you know how possible it is for the collapse of companies?
As for “download it”, what if i lose the drive? What if i get hacked? What if the government decides to censor or outright ban that album, and the company has to comply so i lose access to ever being able to download it again?
These are all valid questions that you’re outright ignoring and will continue to.
It's probably just a leftover from when people primarily used iTunes to download music for iPods (which didn't have internet connection outside of the iPod Touch).
> What if wherever i downloaded it to dies after their company goes under?
Skill issue.
You're not thinking outside the box and hard drives, especially those access frequently become more prone to failure as they age. Luckily there are a few solutions you should be adopting.
1. NAS or SAS Depending on the size of your collection a capable NAS should be able to retain all of it. This is a dedicated computer serving files to your LAN (or even remotely via VPN). FreeNAS, NextCloud, OpenBSD... are a few solutions for this item. The advantage of this kind of system is you can swap Hard Drives as they fail based on the partitioning and redundant RAID architecture.
A SAS is a little more special and really for the power user who happens to keep a few servers and services running. It's louder, bulkier and offers way more storage.
2. IPFS/IPLD One could repost their pirated content to IPFS and allow it time to propagate. You would need to save the hashed CIDs to find your content later.
3. Offline media. Cold-storage Format large capacity USB drives to be Write Protected and flash the compressed image binaries of your content to them. You can choose to vacuum seal and store these keys in a ESD safe bag, within a EMP safe can. This will ensure that you have media in the worst case scenarios. > Creating an image of media you want to preserve https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-dd-create-make-disk-image-commands/
@marine Most modern media has had digital handcuffs on them from the start.
The CD format is handcuff-free, but many sellers in the past made corrupt disks that were designed not to be playable on a computer, or even auto-installed a rootkit to stop you from dumping the music to make a backup or share it.
Unencrypted DVD's exist, but most DVD's are corrupted by CSS, although thanks to libdvdcss, DVD's are playable with free software.
It's possible to make a unencrypted bluray, but every mass bluray production company mandates that corrupted disks are produced, with AACS and BD+ (which is literally corrupting the video stream over time and then correcting it during playback with a proprietary Java error correction engine) - thankfully, with libbluray+libaacs+libbdplus, playing a bluray with free software is possible, although one needs to find and include the decryption keys and pre-computed error correction tables.
>you don’t get to own it if it’s drm protected Referring to handcuffing schemes as "protection" is an error, as what is being protected against? Your have a legal right to make a backup and there are also a number of activities permissible under fair use that Digital Restrictions Management restricts.
>i don’t own the copyright Copyright is held and not owned, otherwise artists couldn't be forced to sign their copyright away to some company and it would never expire (rather than being of a limited term, although the current terms are hardly limited).
>I am surprised apple doesn’t have DRM apple doesn't put handcuffs on music, but the process for exporting it from "itunes" is intentionally made painful so you're unlikely to do it for much music.
Everything else has handcuffs on it of course.
>I’m stuck in their garbage ecosystem. An ecosystem is a natural system that has naturally occurred and that one neutrally observes.
apple has intentionally designed a proprietary jail that is slightly inconvenient to escape from, but it really isn't hard.
Further down you try to make the case that it's impossible to backup things, but in reality it isn't hard to reliably do so.