From: nospam@insightbb.com
The Wanderer wrote on [Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:05:53 -0500]:
> Marc Espie wrote:
>
>> In article , Justin
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Marc Espie wrote on [Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:04:29 +0000 (UTC)]:
>
>>>> One nice thing about this new shiny internet thingy is Deezer.
>>>>
>>>> I just realized that I ought to be able to read uf again with the
>>>> correct soundtrack all the way. Was lazy enough that I never
>>>> bothered to track down a lot of the songs, and here it is, most
>>>> of it just available for free.
>>>
>>> Free and legal, or free and illegal?
>>
>> deezer.com is just free and legal. You just cannot download anything
>> legally from it (apart from creative commons music), it's only a
>> listening service.
>
> There is no such thing as "only a listening service". Anything which can
> be streamed for listening purposes can be saved as a local copy if the
> receiving software wants to do that; the only way to prevent that would
> be to use a 100% proprietary protocol and/or encryption and restrict
> knowledge of the receiving protocol and/or the decryption keys only to a
> binary-only client, which would cut out many possible people and would
> be impractical anyway. Anyone who tries to use "only making it available
> as a stream, not providing a download link" as a means of copy
> prevention is somewhere between blind and stupid.
If you can hear it you can save it.
> Then again, that's a better thing for me, as I wouldn't listen to it
> streaming anyway - even when I don't want to keep a copy (which I often
> don't), I download the local copy first and listen to that. Streaming
> just has too many downsides to be worth it for anything other than
> either live performances or "random selection background accompaniment"
> radio equivalents.
Streaming has the issue of network interruptions ...
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