• stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    I miss when you could buy CDs and rip them to your computer so if your shitty mp3 died, you could just move everything on there.

    Degrees of freedom revoked

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        7 months ago

        Seriously. Everyone complains about how it was so much better back then, when you owned your music on physical media.

        Meanwhile, the choice of music available to buy on CD’s (and even LP’s) has never been greater than today.
        Plus, you can easily download whatever you want from any streaming service and burn your own CD’s (but please don’t do that, it violates the TOS and copyright!)

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          Or you can buy DRM-free music files at higher quality than was ever available on physical media outside of niche formats that were never widely adopted. Costs are not outrageous and you can listen to them however you like on whatever device you like, and the artists actually get paid and there’s no question of legality.

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            7 months ago

            Yeah you can literally buy flac instead of relying on CDs to get lossless quality. Also recording these days is so much better, you could easily get a lot of good remastered version of your favorite songs now.

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      7 months ago

      I bought a CD of Green Day’s “American Idiot” and tried to rip it. The version still sold these days has some kind of copy protection on it that gives rippers fits (which isn’t very punk rock of them). Tried a few different things, and then gave up and downloaded somebody else’s flac rip.

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          Yes, that’s what I tried first. There’s a Windows ripper that some people had success with, but didn’t work for me.

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            7 months ago

            And it didn’t work? Wierd. Was it mount and copy as files or dding without mounting? Did vlc play cd?

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      7 months ago

      You still can. I do it all the time.

      It’s entirely possible that I’ve missed more recent legislation, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada has a “blank media tax” courtesy of the record lobby back in the recording tape days. There was much pushback from consumers when that fee was applied to things like video tapes, recordable CDs, hard drives, etc, but still exists as far as I know.

      The recording industry was pushing for laws more in line with other jurisdictions, primarily the US. The government was open to it, but would then abolish the fees on blank media. Industry backed down because they get more from that fee distribution than they would ever get by having more restrictions. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from trying to shame us or blow smoke up our asses.

      That means we are already paying a licence fee allowing us to copy recorded or broadcast material for personal use. “Personal use” is defined by what it’s not: rebroadcast, playing for the general public, and reselling. Thus, making a strictly personal copy is fine, as is making a copy for a friend, copying from an original you’ve borrowed (from a friend or from the library), recording legal broadcasts (like from radio, etc), and recording concerts unless the terms of admission expressly forbid it, etc.