From: johnwilliamson@btinternet.com   
      
   On 23/02/2024 21:08, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
      
   > I have bought music from Amazon, and still have the .mp3 files I   
   > downloaded.   
   >   
   I used to buy music from Tesco, and the files are still fine, playable   
   and in my backup system. Unfortunately,they withdrew the service many   
   years ago. Luckily, I had all my library stored locally to me.   
      
   I refused to buy from Apple as initially they only allowed you a certain   
   number of copies on your systems, and if a playing device crashed, you   
   irretrievably lost access all those copies. Under their rules, a crashed   
   hard drive in my music player could have cost me five grand or more.   
   (The player in my pocket had about five thousand tracks on it at the   
   time, costing a dollar or so per track. It now has over thirty thousand,   
   all paid for.) I never saw the benefit to users in their copy control   
   system.   
      
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   Tciao for Now!   
      
   John.   
      
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