A letter to people who buy music with DRM
Lol, you f*ckers never learn. 
And by "you f*ckers", I mean people who buy music that's copy-protected or has DRM "locks" on it. See the story below...I must have seen this shit 2 dozen times now from 2 dozen different companies.
And it's always bullshit- eventually the company decides to stop running the authentication service that lets you play
the music you paid for...and then you can't play your music anymore. Your music library is
gone, dead.
All that money you spent was a sucker's bet and you lost. Dig out your wallet and start buying all that music you had all over again (and often at higher prices!). Woo hoo, you've been f*cked. AGAIN.
Never, EVER buy music with DRM. It's just stupid.
"Sonos recently pushed an update to their once stellar music system which disabled windows DRM. They decided that it was unnecessary to continue to support this feature moving forward. Unfortunately they also pushed this update without warning to many customers, and they are offering no way for those customers to roll back to the previous version.
Their answer to those customers effected is that they've made the decision for us. Many customers have been complaining, but it sets a dangerous precedent for them to be able to remove features at will.
Today it's a lightly used DRM system (mostly it effects people using Zune Pass at this point) tomorrow maybe it'll be Sirius Satellite, spotify, or something else more people use. We've suggested that we'd be fine with them allowing us to roll back and making the decision ourselves to not take future update but they will not allow this to occur."
vny!://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=25913 (//vny!://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=25913)
Remember "PlaysForSure" by Microsoft? Of course you don't, because they shut it down. What about "PlayReady
", also by Microsoft? No? How about Rhapsody and their "Helix DRM"? It's gone too. Whoops.
Maybe you remember Apple iTunes and their "FairPlay DRM"? Also gone. Of course you must remember Yahoo! Music and their DRM-encumbered music, right? Nope? That's because the service is dead, along with any music you bought from them. lol
Remember Sony's SecuROM DRM that included a free rootkit? Yep, it's history (but you may still have the rootkit, wheee).
Microsoft abandoned the "PlaysForSure" service with the Zune player tightly tied to the Zune Marketplace. How's that workin' out for ya? lolol Didja like losing all yer music and having to buy it again?
Cool.
Wal-Mart tried offering DRM-restricted mp3 downloads. If you bought any, it's gone now.
And on and on and on...seriously.
Don't you f*ckers ever learn?? Most of my friends either buy the music and rip it to mp3 (something that not everyone can do) or they download it from a file-sharing site and get it for free.
Buy music without DRM, or pirate it. It's the only way you can be sure that you'll still have it this time next year.
