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Posted by FatKat on 12/27/05 19:22
Doug wrote:
> Even places like WalMart.com are only selling them for limited use? I
> looked at their Help page and they didn't indicate that at all.
That's likely because both the industry and private users have
different ideas about what limited use means. I like to think that if
I've ever owned a published copy of some music, I can get as many
versions as I want for free. So having shelled out $9 for "It's a Kind
of Magic" in 1987 on cassette, I need not have to pay another dime to
download it nearly 20 years later. Obviously, the industry disagrees.
Closer to your specific problem - I think that having a song means
enjoying that version of the song whenever, wherever and however I want
to; the industry thinks that having the song means that you have the
song - it's enough that you have the song somewhere, sometime, somehow.
While we've gorwon use to being able to make perfect copies of digital
music, the industry thinks we should harken back to the 20th century,
when your bootlegged music was copied onto cassettes from the radio,
turntable or using a dual-cassette player - degrading sound quality was
a given, such that you were never able to actually copy your music.
> It sound like you buy the song and you get it for good.
I think the time has long past when we could reasonably expect that.
> How do you
> determine what sites actually let you keep the song for good?
That should be clear from the terms of your subscription agreement.
Unless Napster's are particularly clear, the terms of most services
should spell out whether you need to stay subscribed to continue using
media you already downloaded.
> There
> terms and conditions seem to indicate that it's for good as well
> (unlimited use it indicated).
where?
>
> I also just called their 800 number and the lady I talked to indicated
> that once I purchase the song, it's mine for good. So I think Walmart
> should be okay. Just FYI for anyone else who is confused by this as I
> am.
First off, I'd be surprised if there's a single service out there that
guarantees unlimited use of already downloaded music. I'm not saying I
don't believe it - only that it seems unlikely to me. Bear in mind,
all I know of these services is what I've read on usenet - which also
informed me that 9/11 was orchestrated by Martha Stewart, and that OBL
landed on the moon in 1983. I get all of my stuff using peer-share
networks through winmx.
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