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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/posted in Technology
PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/Replying to @unglueclass23@programming.dev
I don’t need to read the article to know that they’re making the same argument as Amazon and Apple. When you “buy” a show on one of the streaming platforms, you aren’t actually buying anything except an extended rental.
Replying to @kboos1@lemmy.world
Digital music for purchase as well.
Replying to @Bonesince1997@lemmy.world
Not quite true anymore, publishers have pretty much given up on DRM for purchased music :)
Neither Apple’s iTunes store nor amazon’s store (although to be fair, I haven’t used amazon, so I’m not 100 % sure about them) use DRM on purchased music, so you can just take the music files and use them in any way you want. In my personal opinion though, rather than use the iTunes store or amazon, I’d recommend you to try the qobuz store, which is DRM-free and is the only one I know of (ignoring bandcamp, which doesn’t get music from regular distributors) that provides lossless audio.
Replying to @mschae@discuss.mschae23.de
Bandcamp lets you download .mp3 which are DRM free. They probably are tagged in the info but its just a text field
Replying to @thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
MP3 is a horrible non-free (well, not anymore, because the patents expired; but still), outdated format. bandcamp also lets you download as FLAC, which is none of that and lossless.
edit: it feels this comment came off a bit aggressively, so I just wanted to say that wasn’t my intention 😅
Replying to @mschae@discuss.mschae23.de
FLAC does not work with alot of devices
Replying to @thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
Then transcode it to whatever other format you need yourself. Point is, the thing being sold ought to be the highest quality possible.
Replying to @thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
AAC-LC though works just about anywhere, and AFAIK is also patent free by now.
Replying to @thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
Which ones don’t support it? It’s a very old format at this point. Every Android device in existence can work with it for example.