Posted by CQ on 12/27/05 10:28

In article <1135662388.243602.306970@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
dnlwhite@dtgnet.com says...

> I'm not exactly sure why CQ is so antagonistic towards my questions but
> I am only simply trying to figure out the best thing to do.

Funny, I thought I'd answered the question.

"You should learn more, a lot more, about what the terms involved
mean and how they apply before you end up spending a lot of money
for very little in return. It could turn out to be an
expensive lesson."

You don't like that advice, so I am antagonistic?

If you have been gifted with a 20GB hard drive MP3 player, at an average
(their figure) of 5MB per song and at $.88/song (their price) it will
take $3500 plus tax to fill that thing up at Walmart with files that are
going to be very limited in the scope of how you can use them.

Even a 1 Gig flash drive player can easily eat up over $200 just filling
it with mediocre quality DRM crippled wma files from Walmart.

I'm glad you aren't using my credit card while determining that the
Walmart site should be "okay".

> I "issued"
> the FYI simply because that is what I was told by a Wal-Mart operator.
> So anybody else reading the FYI, keep that in mind, it was simply what
> I was told, I do not know the veracity of the statement that was given
> to me by the operator. I was simply saying that Wal-Mart appears to be
> okay for the question I asked, and that was whether or not I can buy
> songs and transfer them to my MP3 player without losing them (like you
> would with Napster to Go).

Did I hurt you feelings? Wasn't my intention.

I was a bit curt (not antagonistic, I have no interest in fighting with
you, I actually was trying to help you avoid a pitfall that the music
industry has excavated in front of the hapless new users of mp3 and
portable music devices) in response to your questions mostly because you
were, in fact, posting the answers to the questions you were asking,
while professing confusion as if the web sites themselves had served up a
dose of confusion along with all the fine print.

I said you "issued" an FYI because you did. And you didn't give the FYI
saying the operator told you this or that, you gave the FYI implying that
you had done your research, cleared up the confusion and Walmart is OK.
Actually, you said:

So I think Walmart should be okay. Just FYI for anyone else who is
confused by this as I am.

So, in light of the fact that you are learning a bit about DRM and that
you are learning that when you buy music from the Walmart site you may
get to keep it indefinitely but you certainly can't do what you would
like with it indefinitely, nor will you have access to it indefinitely if
you lose the key, have a hard drive crash, change computers and forget to
bring along the key, etc. etc....in light of all that do you still think,
just FYI, you understand, do you still think "Walmart should be okay"?
Or do you perhaps agree that you should learn a bit more about what you
are talking about before you presume to tell others what is and what is
not going to be okay?

All questions are rhetorical. No need to fight about it. Good luck and
Happy New Year.

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CQ

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