I'd have a lot more sympathy if the music industry didn't try all of the worst available options to handle piracy for years and years.

They had many opportunities to get out ahead of it, and they squandered it trying to cling to album sales where 11/13 tracks were trash. They are in a bed of their own making.

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raw_anon_1111 a day ago | parent | next [-]

You have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.

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bradleybuda 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will justify it to themselves on the thinnest of pretenses.

	▲	irilesscent 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is factually true though, music piracy DID drop once ad supported music streaming became available, the opposite is also true, video/movie piracy is now on the rise due to the amount of streaming subscriptions one has to juggle and their rising prices. Ofcourse there will always be those who yearn for the pirates life, but the vast majority just do it for convenience.

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lmm 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that still the case? The option to do that quietly disappeared from Amazon Music a couple of months ago, for example, and they were one of the last few holdouts where you still could. It might be only Apple now?

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neobrain 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's still plenty of options around, Qobuz and 7digital in particular offer drm-free flac downloads.

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bpfrh 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quboz, bandcamp, etc.

	▲	accrual 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bandcamp is still my go to for owning music. Nice platform, just works.

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ocdtrekkie 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I still buy DRM free music from Amazon.

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adrianN 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Piracy went down quite a bit since that is possible.

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vel0city a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You've been able to buy DRM free digital music since the 1980s.

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saubeidl 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Technically not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System

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rob74 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I think OP was referring to CDs, which AFAIK don't have DRM.

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saubeidl 15 hours ago | parent [-]

My link is to the CD DRM!

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masfuerte 13 hours ago | parent [-]

This is rather misleading. Standard CDs as sold had (and have) no DRM.

The scheme you link to is intended to prevent further copies of CD-Rs but you can copy a CD you bought as often as you like.

	▲	mirashii 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unless the CD comes with a root kit that interferes with that copying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

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jMyles a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels

Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever?

Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

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raw_anon_1111 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009.

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format

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jdabney a day ago | parent [-]

ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/

	▲	raw_anon_1111 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Wow. How did I miss that!!!

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whstl a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

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lurk2 a day ago | parent [-]

I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.

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raw_anon_1111 21 hours ago | parent [-]

A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.

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pcthrowaway 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?

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Yodel0914 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.

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potatoicecoffee a day ago | parent | prev [-]

they made cd singles and single song purchases long before streaming