Are there any ill-consequences of using purportedly "legal" DRM stripping?
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Juliebird - Aug 21, 2007 12:38:07 pm PDT #2480 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Consuela - Aug 21, 2007 8:39:52 pm PDT #2481 of 25496
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ita, I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata. Not just the DRM-free ones.
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 9:43:44 pm PDT #2482 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata.
Yup. That's how they know whose file it originally was. But those files never went anywhere (what with being unusable and all), so I didn't mind. Not that I'm going to send my copies of the DRM-free music blazing across the internet, but the more portable the file gets the less I want my personal info in it.
omnis_audis - Aug 22, 2007 12:37:24 am PDT #2483 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
unusable? You could always burn the purchased songs to a CD-Audio disc, give as many copies as you want to folks, and they could re-rip it in if they want. I don't know if the tags floated with the CD-Audio disc or not, but you could still share. It just took an extra step.
flea - Aug 22, 2007 3:26:19 am PDT #2484 of 25496
information libertarian
Heh. In writing up my problem, I think I found the solution. Thanks, hivemind!
Theodosia - Aug 22, 2007 4:15:19 am PDT #2485 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
In writing up my problem, I think I found the solution. Thanks, hivemind!
Shucks, it was literally nothing! Glad to be of help like this, any time!
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2007 4:28:49 am PDT #2486 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You could always burn the purchased songs to a CD-Audio disc, give as many copies as you want to folks, and they could re-rip it in if they want. I don't know if the tags floated with the CD-Audio disc or not, but you could still share. It just took an extra step.
Which is exactly what I do, but in that scenario the email address in the file isn't relevant, because I'm not sharing that file--I'm sharing that song.
However, in a DRM-free world, I can share the file itself, and therefore that's when my information goes out into the wild.
Volans - Aug 22, 2007 1:19:46 pm PDT #2487 of 25496
move out and draw fire
X-Box 360: I bought one for my DH assuming we could play co-op; hook two controllers up and go. But I can't find anything in the literature or on the internet, and the game menus seem to assume that by "cooperative" play you mean XBox Live with someone else.
If coop play on the same deck is possible, how can I figure out which games allow it and which are Live only?
NoiseDesign - Aug 22, 2007 2:24:00 pm PDT #2488 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Most of the FPS games like Halo 2 and Gears of War offer split screen co-op. I'm not certain how they denote it on the box though.
Laga - Aug 22, 2007 2:25:20 pm PDT #2489 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Split screen is irritating if you don't have a big TV. But at least in coop play you can't cheat by looking at what the other person is doing.