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When purchasing isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft.
PSA: Download all your kindle books. Even if you don't plan on cracking their DRM, you'll have the option to in the future should you want to.
Though do it before the end of the month! (Edit: the 26th) Amazon is taking that option away
Wednesday the 26th, not the end of the month. If anyone is thinking they'll get to it later, you have three days from this post
And that's why Bandcamp exists. No DRM, whatever format you like and you support the artist.
Let's hope the new owners won't destroy it.
Oh man. One time, at band camp…🐈⬛ 🪈
Based xkcd
There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren't even alive when this comic was drawn. I'm old.
Now that the US is run by literal criminals, any moral objection to something here on the grounds that it's illegal has no weight whatsoever.
As far as music goes, Qobuz is DRM-free.
bandcamp too.
and 7digital which somehow still exists lol
Small note: iTunes doesn’t have DRM anymore (since 2009)
Apple Music (the subscription) has DRM though, but you should never have a collection on a subscription service, because it can go away at any time
Yes, exactly. The comic was published on October 13, 2008, according to Explain XKCD, that's probably why iTunes is in it.
Here is my idea: Everyone makes a private key. When they buy a song they receive the file and a digital signature by the label saying they sold it to your ~~private~~public key. When you are caught with a bunch of songs, you have to prove ownership using your key. Tadaa provable ownership, no blockchain, You loose the file, but still have the signature? You can download it again and all is good.
EDIT: Of course, they would sign the public key, sorry.
A digital signature from the label would be created with their private key.
What would they be signing? Your public key plus the ID of the song? They can't sign your private key, it's private.
What stops you sharing your private key and a song with a friend. Then when either of you need to provide proof, you can both show that you have the private key that matches the signed file?
Well they would sign my public key plus ID of the song. I can prove, it is my public key and everyone can verify the song belongs to me.
You are right, to ensure noone can "share login" so to say, it needs to be tied to you personally. That would deny privacy sadly.
EDIT: Didn't notice I wrote the wrong thing, thanks for notifying me.
Wait, isn't that just nfts?
I don't think so. There nothing non fungible in my idea and nfts require a blockchain.
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I'd pay for it once to support the creators. Once and once only.
After I paid Metallica for their music, more than once in some cases, and then they went to war on us fans, been stealing since.
Bandcamp was acquired by Epic, but they still offer DRM-free downloads of all your music, give artists good cuts, and if you buy on Bandcamp Friday, the best cut any artist could hope for. I'd rather there was a distributed solution without a corporation taking a cut off the top, but it's still getting you pretty close to the artist.
I tried, but I can't, since it's Creative Commons
Technically you can: if you distribute the comic but don't give the attribution, you are breaking the terms of the license which is just about the closest thing to "pirating" it that you can do.
But "breach of license" is so much more lame than "piracy!"*
*Yes, a lot of piracy is itself breach of license, hush
Ok, what next?
xkcd comics are available under a CC-By-NC 2.5 licence, so you've successfully pirated by not including attribution (as long as people can't tell at a glance that it's xkcd from the art style or comment thread you posted it to), but to seal the deal, it'd be a crime to sell it.
I couldn't tell at glance this was from xkcd and am willing to testify to a jury, when's the court date?
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I'll give you $5 for it.
I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can't read them anymore.
Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can't complain if one day they change the encryption
The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.
Their brain goes "I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!"
I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.
Feel like it's too arduous to pirate music these days
edit: Thank you guys for all the suggestions
Arduous?! Why you little...
In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I'd download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)
I repeat: Why you little...
Qobuz and Bandcamp exist. You can buy drm free music from there. Head over to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for free options. It's not that hard.
Try Soulseek, it has just about everything.
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