If you broke the copyright protection and shared a few 99 cent songs, the Feds come for you. If a Corporation takes $24k of your stuff they enjoy the mystical protection of “Terms of Service” ...
Not if it's the police and it's asset forfeiture. They don't even have to charge you with a crime. And any bank manager don't even get me started. What you mean is any of us peons aren't allowed to steal :)
Friend had apple account with a ton of music he paid for. I told him that account could be closed at any time and he would lose everything and for him to investigate how he can download or some how backup everything on that account. He checked into that and found a way to translate all that music into MP3 files and have all those stored on his own computer.
Funny thing is apple uses mp3s wrapped in a container file to try to stop you from porting around your music. They did not invest in a proprietary music format, just a way to obscure and lock an existing one. I've always said that if they expect me to spend any money on digital format products, it better come at an extremely deep discount before I even consider it. Look at games and movie too, they wanna charge full price for a digital download. There are some services that have gone under, restructuring, or outright remove content people have paid for. In the gaming industry, even if you get the physical media, it's unfinished and damn near unplayable without connecting to some server to download 40 gigs of updates. They are trying to sell you on a perceived convenience while they turn a product into a service and make you pay full price to rent access to it.
@@jeramylaneholt apple uses AAC and if you buy the music you can download it encryption free. I do it all the time and run it in other apps and other devices.
Remember the lawsuits from when they printed "By opening this package you agree to the terms and conditions" on the outside of the package but you couldn't see those terms and conditions without opening the package? Talk about buying a pig in a poke.
@@eljayess I'm not talking about breaking the law or stealing Many smaller artists and hobbyists put their music on RU-vid and run ads It's really enjoyable to support new artists and help them build a revenue stream and fan base. RU-vid also has deals with major record labels, so you can still listen to most of your collection for free
@@truth.speaker The vast majority of those artists also self-publish to Amazon. I prefer to buy the music there and not be saddled with RU-vid, the ads, the bandwidth, or anything else. Truth be told, by selecting slower shipping options on my Amazon orders I build up enough digital music credits that I don't actually have to "pay" for music anyhow. So... I get free music, legally, just by being an Amazon customer.
For those too young to remember, in the early days of iTunes, everything had Apple DRM so you could only play music purchased there on Apple devices. When Apple started losing business to services that weren’t as restrictive, what did they do? Offer to SELL users “upgraded” versions of music they already purchased without their own restrictive DRM. Apple can’t help themselves. They don’t see their users as customers. They see them as money spigots. Also, I actually like that Billy Ocean song.
I went through this timeframe and you are wrong about re-purchasing music, as long as you were using the same apple account you just downloaded a fresh copy in plan AAC.
Like renting a safe deposit box at the bank. Just because your bank account has been terminated, shouldn’t mean that they get to keep the contents of the box. They should have given him notice so he could transfer the contents.
Not so sure you should feel secure about safety deposit boxes at a bank or 3rd party. Many in the last years have been confiscated through no unlawful activity of the owner of the box. The owners box just had to be in the vicinity of a safe deposit box that was 'suspected ' of having unlawful contents or related to legal action against the owner. Just sayin. Steve might have a vid on this topic.
That's different; nobody in their right mind would sign a contract for a safety deposit box that says the bank has the right to close your box and keep all contents for any reason without notice. But nobody reads an iTunes contract.
@@user-eh5cr4or6k Not when the band is thousands of miles away, not even on the same continent. What, you're going to trust the USPS to both send and receive your MP3 burned to a CD?
This is why I haven't bought any digital music at all. I want a physical copy just so some company can't come around and say, "Oh, you can't have that anymore" and cut my access to that product.
That's simple enough to fix. When you buy digital content, download the files and store them on your own devices, be it flash memory or optical discs. If the supplier only allows one to stream the music, record it while it is streaming and store the files.
@@Milosz_Ostrow That's the whole reasoning behind the law suit; Apple encrypts YOUR media, and won't allow a transfer in the event of an account ban...Basically, Apple is saying "we don't want you, to use our products, anymore"...AFTER he PAID for them...His Apple devices he paid THOUSANDS for, are now "paper weights"...NO. You can't sell a product, then revoke access to said product! That would be like buying a car, and the company revoking your ability to drive it...
@@brentfarvors192 apple will say he bought a revocable license and he "owns" nothing. Have a good friend who had an apple account so I said you know after you spent all that $$ they can terminate your access to that right? So he found a way to convert all his songs to MP3 and download them all to his computer. This was a long time ago so maybe apple figured out a way to prevent that. I don't ever buy a revocable license to listen to a song. I own most all the music on CD's as I consider each of those an irrevocable life time license for that music. When and if I buy more music, I try and find the CD version. I like to cruse the 2nd hand stores and always check the CD collection to see what they got. 2 or 3 bucks a pop for most CD's and they usually always have something in the classic rock category. Just picked up four 1970's era live stones albums for 2 bucks each from a backwoods 2nd hand store. Love it.
@@robert5 I think the judge will rule otherwise...If you have a licence that's revocable, that's called LEASING...Seeing as how the word "buy" has historically been universal to mean you OWN IT...Sure; They can change the wording to say "lease it", but no one would do it, since they can OWN IT ELSEWHERE! The specific word "BUY", will play a major role in this case...
Fun Fact: If you buy a physical CD (album) from Amazon, they put up a digital copy that you can listen to or download for free. It is also usually cheaper to buy the CD from them than it is to just buy the digital copy. So pay less, get more. And you have walk away physical media, as well as a downloadable digital copy.
Daskraut- in my opinion you are simply unable to enjoy the direction music has taken. That's understandable. But it's rather disrespectful towards the many (in my opinion) extremely talented musicians in their perhaps early careers. I'm 61, and find very much new music that I find thoroughly enjoyabe and amazing. And, yes, it is certainly different than the music I enjoyed in the 70's etc. If all I had to listen to was the same songs I have heard 10,000 or more times I would stop listening altogether. Enough outta me.
who are “they”? Look, I support each person’s right to free expression and the music they like but you’re simply incorrect. May I recommend... Think about the genre of music or type of music you love and then google in “indie {genre} band” and I guarantee you’ll find artists making that type of music. There are so many independent artists, for example, like classic southern rock style (blackberry smoke) or roots style (deslondes) or obscure virtuoso heavy metalists (tosin abasi and others) and many others making insane amazing music today. If you don’t care to that is absolutely perfectly ok that is your preference and that is totally good and fine and well. And even though I like old music better than newer musics usually also, it always irks me when people just write it off as if no more good music is being made at all by the hundreds of thousands of hard working musicians in the world.
I have most of the music that I used to enjoy (and still do). But I've been expanding my musical tastes, and it's very rewarding. Kind of like trying new foods. If you watch Rick Beato, it's easy to become enthused with listening to different music. I've been buying CDs at Goodwill for $1.99 and polishing and ripping them. I could never otherwise have justified affording the music collection that I now have. I just bought a 512gb microSD so I can keep my albums on my phone (good DAC with jack). Of all the recent technological advancements, I'm still amazed at how many FLAC albums and art fit on a microSD.
@@markhonea2461 daskraut may have legitimate complaints. The dynamic range of most new music has been over-compressed. Artificial drums and beat suck the life out of music, as does syncing everything to a timing track. It's rare to hear interesting chord combinations. Too many artists use the same writers. As brains age, they can become less flexible. You're right that there's lots of great music being created; it takes some effort to find it.
I'd really like to see a law which says that no consumer level legal document can be longer that 7 tweets worth of characters. That would concentrate the minds of the companies to decide what it is they really want to protect, instead of throwing in every possible contingency they can think of.
@@numberyellow I chose 7 because that's the average number of items that a typical human can remember in short term memory, and tweets because we're all used to condensing thoughts into concise messages of this length. If it helps, I'm perfectly happy to convert 7 tweets into more conventional units, such as elephants, blue whales, Olympic size swimming pools, or London buses.
Yeah this is also a thing in the gaming industry. Big time. And there's almost never a rule you can point to to explain account termination. It's all kept as vague as possible so that they can punish anyone they don't like.
Or for games that suddenly vanish from your library. Scott Pilgrim vs. the world was a title that vanished from both mine and the hubby's account. This time around we ordered the physical copy. But now there is the problem with always-online services that if they ever go away you will not be able to play the game, even with the physical disc... PS4 and PS5 both check the network when you put a disc in, no network, no game. A problem I will not have with my classic pc games.
@@catandthesixxness That's the NEXT coming lawsuit! If they sell you a game that only runs on a specific system, they HAVE to allow you to play it on that system...
I only have one game I would go pirate on if they tried to remove it, but yeah, you bought it you should be able to use it. (That one game is Skyrim... I have cd copies of Oblivion and Morrowind so no probs there.)
What gets me is that Steve mentioned also that Apple also diminishes his id so that if he sells the device then the device itself is diminished (effectively destroyed) so then Apple is also destroying his physical property & denying all fair & due process of law , , , Effectively , Apple is acting as a tyrannical overlord over whoever buys their products &/or services , , ,
❤Billy Ocean❤ The problem with these social media platforms, is that they never tell you your account is jeopardy, why it's being scrutinized, or what you did to "violate their terms of service." Nor, do they offer any recourse or appeal process.
Yeh like they are some kind of god with judge jury execution authority saying "to hell with them sinners & losers" without even considering values of actual real transactional dealings with customers in a real brick and mortar store , , , These contemporary mega-corporations needs to phuck off & divest themselves out of existence
Nothing is more annoying that loading up a playlist for a road trip, or your drive to work, only to sit in silence for most of it because you dont have a satellite phone and winding hills and dense trees blocks cell signal This is why i moved off of Google because RU-vid Music didnt have the features of Google Music
I'm still bitter about the fact of they just started charging me seven bucks more per month and took away my favorite features. You can migrate all your music BS.
As one of “the hipsters”, I do, in fact, buy the vinyl. A lot of the weird stuff I listen to will randomly disappear from streaming services when people start battling over rights or something is so obscure it basically just gets forgotten. Hey, I love what I love. I don’t like it randomly disappearing from existence on me.
I have a great solution for you, get a good VPN and sail the seven seas of the internet under the skull and crossbones flag, if you know what I mean 😉 My lawyer has asked me to say that this is just a bad joke, and that I do not or have I ever participated in any way in piracy of any kind nor will I ever do so.
@@jerrynadler2883 the dead see scrolls were preserved only thanks to the remarkably dry conditions in the area they were found in, being in sealed jars and in a cave which shielded then from the elements, and even with all that they're not in good condition and have a lot of parts of them that have just crumbled away or otherwise been damaged beyond repair.
@@mbryson2899 Out of curiosity, exactly how many of the ~large proportion of classmates~ are currently still stuck to you? Also, have you considered trying static discharging dryer sheets? I'm just kidding around. I hope all is well and that you have had a great weekend! 👍😇✌
@@jasonbourne1596 "if I burn a copy of a song or album that I paid for once or more already, is that stealing too?" No that is covered under fair use. As long as it is for your own personal use you are free to make copies and or backups of the music / videos you buy (Non-Commercial use). If you sell the original then you must destroy / stop using the copies / backup. As for games? That can get a bit complicated. You said you lost 2 or 3 steam accounts due to your own hardware failure and subsequent failure to know how to gain access to your steam account.. Well?!?!? Thats kinda on you.. If you were to loose or break physical media they would not GIVE you a new copy. The complicated part with Video Games (and Apple store stuff) is if you loose access to the account you loose access to the stuff on the account. (which is the topic of this video lol) I try to only buy my games as physical media or DRM free. (GOG - Good Old Gamers would have things like Fallout and the expansions ect... in a DRM free version..) You still would NEED to know your account info if you ever had a hardware failure and no backups..
@@jasonbourne1596 to answer your question quickly, No its not because you paid for it, have the physical media and by copyright law you are entitled to make backups. ***Edit*** Unless your steam account was terminated by Steam you can contact Steam by phone, or web and have your account password changed. They will send you a password change key as well as long as you have the same email address. I've had my Steam password changed several times and have not lost a thing.
Who else here remembers Napster? I had a very nice playlist and fortunately I had downloaded some of the list to my MP3 ('member those), well thank goodness I had done that and used that while I was getting chemo. My Napster list was fn gone and none of us got the memo.
? I still have 4000+ songs on a harddrive somewhere.. napster went but the mp3s stayed.. been using diff programs to download for free since then. Nowadays i just use a huge memory card in my phone and a bluetooth speaker
@@jeremyhanna3852 Really? Well, in any event that $108 p/y that's not in my budget. I still miss Napster as you can seen but now I've signed up for Jazz Radio since I could get it for free.
@@shawncool5496 I wound up deleting my files later on out of principle. The period where Napster was a thing, I bought more music than at any other time in my life, but when they went down, I just about stopped buying completely. Granted, it was a service that wasn't licensed and was breaking the law, but I must not have been the only one to stop buying, because the RIAA hasn't had a year that good in the roughly 20 years since they shut down Napster.
This is why I don't "buy" things that require an active account. When possible, I buy physical CDs and DVDs (I never did Blu-ray). If they want my DVDs back, they will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
cds and dvds will rot. blue ray menus suck but the picture is better. your best bet is to actually own/have digital files with redundant backups on the same and other devices. a solid state harddrive with flac files of every song and that will out last your cds and DVDs.
@@pauliewalnuts2527 Good advice. I tell people to keep multiple copies in multiple formats of all their media, especially of personal files which cannot be replaced. One good thing about DVDs (which do degrade over time) is that even if a DVD is in the drive at the time a disk drive/SSD fails, your cloud storage provider gets hacked, or you get a ransomware virus, the DVD cannot be corrupted or altered (until it "rots").
Apple has been reducing functionality all along. I have an IPad Retina for which they stopped updating the IOS. That wouldn’t be so bad except they started disabling apps that I had, saying the updated apps would no longer work on my IOS. You also could not get any new ones. And there is nothing wrong with the device, they have simply software obsoleted it.
I am not aware of any corporations that are not evil and out of control! If you buy a cd or dvd you can sell it, give it away, loan it and it is also part of your estate. You should be able to do the same thing with digital content. It's about time someone sued apple over this and I wish him luck!!!
The typical issue of buying a product vs. buying a license. Where the corporations declare that a license is just as good as the actual product, until they decide it isn't. And sadly, it is getting more and more difficult to avoid the "licensing" model...
This is why you download mp3s rather than buy them. You can support the artists other ways, like buying merchandise and concert tickets. I prefer buying record albums with nice covers and framing them on the wall. Or buy the CDs and rip them. BTW I have that same 45 somewhere, I loved that song as a little kid lol
Indeed I even went as far as to had a specific band $10 in cash one time and told them it was for a copy of X and that this way they get 10x the $ they would if I bought it in the store and the RIAA/labels etc and other vultures fin ripping them off I will forever remember the smiles I got from the band and was given both signed copies of various stuff they had on hand but was given stage seats This was back in the 1st yrs of MP3s (to which i did a bunch of work) and I occasionally speak with them to this day
Did you know you can actually buy AND download digital versions of music? There are websites for that. If I can't find a group or song on one of those websites, I buy the CD. 7Digital is one of those websites.
I bought my first "computer" in 1984... it was a Commodore 64 and it was just enough to get me hooked. Actually, my father worked for the government starting around 1960 and he was an early user of computers. He worked at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and he took my sister and I on a tour of the building in which he worked. The computers there looked just like the ones in the old movies, with punch cards flying around and huge reel-to-reel tape drives. The place was kept very cold and I remember all of the ladies (key punch operators) were wearing sweaters! I asked my Dad what all of that computing power was used for... he told me that the entire building full of computers was used to keep up with dry-goods inventory for the Navy! No double-naught spy stuff there! Later on, around 1990 I bought my first real computer. It was an AST Research (later to become Toshiba) set up with the desktop CPU, 14" greenscale monitor, and dot matrix printer... all for the low, low price of $2100! It had a 210 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM! I am now on my 7th or 8th computer, and it seems as though all I do is watch Steve Lehto videos on RU-vid!
210MB? Fancy. I had an Amiga 2000 in 1991 with a "huge" 50MB drive (also coming from a C64). Try to explain a size that small to kids these days... Or that we once used audio cassettes to store data.
@@CantankerousDave I remember buying another 4 MB RAM card, and being amazed at how much better and faster that computer was! It ran on Windows 3.1, which was the hottest ticket on android systems back then, but I still had to learn to run some DOS programs to clean up and defrag the hard drive! I still have some floppy disks somewhere...
@@braxtonnelson7422 And in the context of the mid 1990s movie Apollo 13, I learned that astronauts flew to the moon and back with less on-board computing power than the average (then) modern car....
The good old dot matrix printer. I got one in 1985 and loved it. Made that screeching noise as the pins strike the ribbon on the paper. I loved the way the characters appeared on the paper. Very relaxing to read.
When I was a student, I spent three years running jobs on a computer that I _never_ saw! Punch cards in -> Green lined paper out. No idea what happened in between ;-) And my degree subjects? Physics and computing!
@@mandolinic1979 -Try being one of the poor suckers making those holes in the cards to run your own little "program" to get a return on your greenlined paper that says error card No.x command invalid -and try again in the next batch on the next night
Back when iTunes was first launched they had a policy in place where you could only link your account to three computers or devices, when you had used up those three devices you could no longer get access to your account from any other device but those 3.
That’s still the case - you have a limited number of devices that you can have authorized at a time but it is more than three. And back then you could clear that list and then re-authorize the machines you want. At least now you can remove individual machines without having to clear the entire list.
@@DocNo27 to expand on this its 5 now. the whole concept is a relic of the early days of iTunes so you weren't passing around accounts and dumping all your music onto old iPods. i cant tell you how many times ive had to dump old devices off of mine.
@@sikend6674 I didn't say 5 because I recently had to clear a couple of older devices off of my list and there were more than 5 authorized ones listed. I don't think iOS devices count towards the limit, but computers sure do. It would be interesting to see if the limit still applies to iPods. I wonder if my old ones will still power up :p
I'm 63 years old i have kept all my albums since I was 16 and my aunt gave me all her 45s when she was young my dad then had all his 8 track tapes so I have all those too and and all cassette tapes and not to mention some reel tapes its guite a collection
Except for the reel tapes, the others have to be shoveled off the free table at the dump. I usually only take CDs and DVDs and my collection is overflowing.
@@Foolish188 yeah I have at 200 rubber made containers of cds and dvds especially when the kids were younger all the walt Disney one one of my exs years ago worked setting up band equipment for concerts so have alot of songs of original stuff I guess vyou can some hot underground stuff just stuff in music
@@Foolish188 push them off the table this way.buy a cd, cassette and record.dont open for twenty years and see which two still play and which one is blank.
@Kathy Bryla That made me smile. I'm also 63, but have never really got 'into' music, just listened on radio. My lifetime's collection of music is 22 CDs and 17 cassettes.
Burn 'em on CDs or DVDs - I have my entire collection on multiple media types, not just hard disks, as those can fail or be susceptible to magnetic erasure or failure.
@@simplywonderful449 use SSDs...tho i think your worry about magnetic interference is just 80s era nuclear Holocaust paranoia, since an EMP pulse is pretty much what it would take. Mobile DJs have laptops next to huge subwoofers, people who home record have PCs next to 4x12s or 4x10s.
I remember the days of installing from floppies. I bought Microsoft Office and it seems like it was 28 floppies. CorelDRAW! with clipart and fonts was 31 floppies. Not fun. Re-installing after a crash or on a new computer was an adventure that was not always successful. Floppies were not stable in storage and were wiped if they got near a magnet. Thanks for reminding me of how well we have it now.
I remember my first and only time buying a digital song. I only owned it for a single day. A virus damaged the DRM file and I learned that I could not recover it. I also apparently didn't have the right to re-download it. I learned then and there that a digital purchase is not the same thing as physically owning something, so from then on I would buy CDs and rip them myself. When the iPad came out I was already busy using an MP3 player and didn't see the value in it. Learning about the DRM immediately convinced me never to do it, and I never did. To this day I will only ever purchase something physically - be it games or music. I know others who lost thousands of dollars over the years though. Sometimes a virus, sometimes an account being terminated for one reason or another, and in one case because the company decided not to support the store anymore rendering all existing purchases gone.
THIS. This is the reason why I refuse to buy "virtual" property. I refuse to buy a kindle book or ebook. I refuse to buy movies, music, books from online services where I can't get a physical copy. If I buy anything, it has to have a physical copy. So yes, I have a large collection of books. I haven't bought many movies and very little music cds. I've heard about Amazon's pecadillos of getting into arguments with authors and then banning said authors causing ebooks people have bought being recalled and removed. Add that to Apple's case.
I ran into that same problem with Barns and Noble. I had an old Nook reader and purchased books through their site. When I tried to open one on my tablet it was locked. To read MY book, I needed their device with a valid credit card on file. That was my last digital book or B&N purchase. I like hardcover books better anyway!!
I get permission to download a music video once in a while from my favorite artists, usually after buying the CD that contains the song. That way I can watch and listen even when my internet is down.
The "physical" equivalent of this would be like leasing part of your land to a farmer, watching them till, and plant the seeds, then preventing them from harvesting the crops because their "tractors too loud"...
And if there was a noise pollution clause in the lease then this would be totally legal. If you fail to hold up your end of the bargain the other party is completely within their right to terminate said contract.
I have a few albums, mostly sound tracks of movies. That are no longer available on the streaming service. Despite I can still click on the album and such, I cannot play them any more. Unless I was able to download it before it was no longer available. Of course how would I know if or when that would happen.
Tried Amazon Prime and enjoyed their playlist. Within a few weeks my favorite list started changing as songs were removed from the Amazon Prime library. Went back to my tape/ cd collection and never looked back.
Years ago, my first reaction to the software license agreements was that if I do not own the software and I no longer need it, where is my prepaid mailer to return the disks and documentation to the owner for disposal? I'm sure you have noticed that when you "buy" a new car, many charge subscription fees to use installed features. This is an insidious way to ensure that the majority of the people continue giving their money to major corporations, even when the corporations do not continue to provide something new in exchange for the payments. How about free online photo storage offered by Nikon a few years ago? All my photos that I had put there vanished (fortunately, I had local copies also). Microsoft, at one time allowed people to create personal websites. Everything vanished. How long before everything is "free" cloud storage is locked up unless you pay? If you don't store locally, sooner or later you will lose it.
This reminds me of a farside-like comic on a professor's door back in the early 00s. The image is of an airliner cockpit as the plane is plummeting towards the ground and the pilots are freaking out, and on the glass cockpit screens is a messages, "Your version of Microsoft Flight has expired". 🤣
I am back to buying cd's for music. I have apple stuff, and have bought songs and even albums via apple, but yeah, if i move to android i lose that content from apple. Same for any other streaming service. So yeah, I am back to buying the albums even though it costs more when it's an album I want or artist I want to support. Gary Numan is still making amazing music!
Most airline flight crews depend on their tablets for everything. Imagine being at 40,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific and your account gets canceled. Imagine the Pentagon in the middle of an operation and Apple says "Your account has been canceled"
YT music sux monkey balls andthe forced change on google minis etc has been a massive downgrade and the fact that owners still cant select amzn music etc as default is bullshit thats why I'm adding my talents to mycroft
That 25K worth of stuff doesn't exist outside of notionally within Apples service . There is absolutely no way to " return it to him " without using Apples' services .
I totally understand ... Amazon is what I use when I want to purchase music as well, because as far as I know, when you download the MP3s they are yours to play and store and save as you choose, and they don’t stop working if you lose your account or cancel your Prime. The songs that got me started with my purchase “phobia” heh were the songs on an old Bob Ralston Christmas album, one that we listened to when I was a kid opening presents from under the tree... and like you said, the sentimental value, I “just wanted to own own them” 😌
I remember hearing a story from the early days of iCloud about a Greatful Dead fan who had digitized all his audio tape from all the concerts he had attended for many, many years into wav files on his Apple Confuser. He thought it would be a good idea to backup all these very large files to the then new iCloud. However, Apple in their infinite wisdom not only converted all the files he uploaded to the cloud to the smallest MP3 file size possible, but, then, replaced those songs with the commercially released versions. As if this was not enough, Apple, then, took things a step further and went remotely down into the hard drive of his confuser and did the same thing. Fortunately, he had all his original tapes from all those Greatful Dead concerts, but all the work he put into getting the highest quality digital file for each song was lost. From the story I heard, he sued Apple for not only a Dollar Amount, but also required them to recreate all the digital files that they deleted. While I know that he won his lawsuit, I was unable to quickly find anything online that talks about this incident.
that is why I haven't been purchasing as many ebooks on Amazon. The Kindle app was upgraded and it no longer loads the ebooks I purchased already. I have to use the Amazon cloud reader service in order to view the books..so if I ever cancel my Amazon account, I will no longer have access to any of the content I purchased.
no it has not? i put other books into my kindle with calibre library all the time? or are you talking about it no longer loads your kindle purchases? cause the device might be the problem
I have had the same trouble with my amazon kindle and my calibre program being unable to use the newest DRM version on the books I purchase, happily I recently resolved it and can now continue loading my books into my calibre library for safe keeping, you need to reinstall Kindle on pc back to version 1.17 and install apprentice alf's newest de-drm tool into calibre just google it
The most I ever had to deal with was the Video Toaster, with 20 floppies. You had to keep your fingers crossed that you wouldn't get a read error on disk 19...
I am soooo with you Steve. I’m the same way with music. And for reasons like this story, I still buy only physical copies of any media and transfer the content to my devices. I bought my first LP in 1964, Meet the Beatles. Still have it, along with every other Beatles recording. Record collections are a thing. It’s good to know you have them, even if you never listen to the physical product. Also, an almost identical issue exists with Cable Companies and Movies. I can “buy movies” from Verizon FiOS, and “own them forever”, according to the Promo. I once asked what happens if I switch Cable Providers. Answer: Forever means, as long as you are a Verizon FiOS customer. Switch to Comcast and kiss your Forever Content goodbye. I don’t buy movies from FiOS ...
It SAYS buy at apple as well. I got a new ipad and thought I would have to buy the music again, but at the apple store they told me. You bought it, it's yours forever.
hence why the lawsuit over 25k usd of songs, apps and the like due to the termination of the ID those purchases were associated to, they do NOT have the right to terminate access to that if they so wish to with their saying you own it, period. i personally don't have anything on my apple ID, save for one app, Teamspeak.. all my songs are physically stored on AT LEAST two harddisks that i own.
@@confabulouscruisers Which, brings up an entirely new issue with digital content...With this ruling, brings the stipulation that they will either have to allow you to download the content before removal, OR reimburse their customers if that were to happen...Thankfully, I wasn't DUMB enough to fall for their tricks! If I BUY SOMETHING, I MUST physically possess said item(s)...
Something I'm not understanding. You haven't "Downloaded" the music you purchased on Amazon? I have bought 33 songs so far and I downloaded them to my computer then loaded them to my phone. So even if Amazon suddenly disappear I'd still have my songs. Or am I mistaken?
Hi All Steve - i recall the actor Bruce Willis has issues with apple on leaving his itunes collection in his will Does not the apple account also control software used on apple devices, i have a older iphone, ipad and macbook but none of them have additional software on them - what happens if you buy microsoft office or photoshop via a apple id - are they lost and you are locked out now??
You can absolutely download the mp3 files from either Amazon and Apple if you so desire. I ALWAYS download the file to a hard drive that is automatically backed up.
This is why The Werefrog always immediately turned the song into an mp3 not directly tied to the purchased file. The Werefrog don't want Apple to be able to delete the thing. If The Werefrog knew how to do that with downloaded "purchased" videos, The Werefrog would have done the same thing with all videos as well.
I was doing videos a long time ago. I actually forgot how to do it now because its been so long and everything is updated. It wouldn't take long to learn how to do it if you really put energy into learning it.
When I pay to buy a piece of media, especially if it's software with product activation, I pirate a copy as well. Adobe famously killed their activation servers for older versions of all their software and anyone who bought, say, Illustrator CS2 would never be able to reinstall that software because it was technically impossible to do so. Adobe did release a bunch of activation-disabled versions on their site for free on the honor system to remedy this, so I'll at least give them that credit, but the point remains: if I buy it, I will make damned sure that I own it, whether they want me to own it or not.
Nice thing about Amazon, you can download it and keep a copy. You can even burn them on to disk but a lot of newer car stereos will take a USB thumb drive which you can absolutly pack with music depending on the size of the drive. This is useful if you drive through cellular dead zones.
Apple's good at confusing terms of sale, lease and license. Since no one reads the "fine print" since it isn't written in common language; and when you get something on their service the button says "buy" / "purchase" they're obviously not wanting too remind any customers that they're selling licenses. That's fraud.
And I say THAT'S wrong ! But its also happening to all devices made for 3G networking , they won't work without the connection , effectively destroying paid-for property !
So your argument is if someone refuses to read a contract they cannot be held to said contract? That seems very ridiculous and definitely unenforceable.
This is why I buy my music from the Russians... Because I get a real MP3 or FLAC or OGG or other tangible file that I own FOREVER! And they are less expensive LOL
It will be interesting to see what the future will bring: “You don’t own that car you bought, you just own the licensing agreement to use the car until you breach the clause that says we suspect you of doing something we don’t like. You know, like how your house works.”
I think there is a big value in buying physical media (CD/DVD) and ripping them to your computer or storage device so that you could access anytime you want it without the internet. A CD in a thrift store is about $1 to $4 which is a way better value than $0.99 to $1.29 per song or even higher for movies.
That way the artists and recording engineers get $0, which is even worse than what they get from Apple, Amazon, Spotify er cetera. Music is made by people and costs money to produce. You should pay for it. How would you feel if your work would be consumed without any compensation to you?
This is why I have a big problem with subscription services including things like cloud storage where they can change the terms and conditions at any time regarding the access to your own data. On a side note, check what Pioneer DJ/AlphaTheta have done with their DJ platform RekordBox. What was previously a one-off purchase now requires subscriptions. So all of these people that were using the equipment they'd already paid the fees for now have to pay on a monthly basis to use the stuff they own.
