Only Microsoft for Telkom’s Do Music

No thanks, does not like DRM in any form or flavour...

And I don't like using IE at all...
 
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I should take them to court. They're discriminating against me....
Then again Telkom + M$... Why am i not surprised?
 
They sure have messed up now. Even if there was a little response its all gone now due to the problematic downloads. Poor telkom.
 
So this is a monopoly suporting another monopoly. Typical.

At least Magnatune works on Linux+Opera. Go indie music
 
Telkom confirmed that the DRM licenses on their music will only download in Internet Explorer. The company further said that “unfortunately you cannot copy music from one PC to another because of the DRM protection on the music.”
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Out here in the world no one is using the product because it is cr@p.

Cut to meeting room 101, Telkom Towers...

- "How is demand for the downloady Do Music thingy you said we should launch?"

- "Very little interest, no one using it."

- "So we were right, no need to increase bandwidth or caps, no one uses this the interweb anyway. Excellent. Now where were we, agenda item 87: ADSL Price Increases" :cool:
 
xmms is no longer being developed. Amarok and Quod Libet are now the premier linux music apps.
 
Poor service with regards to this service aside, this is one time I will not blame Telkom. And I find it very amusing that iPod owners would bother criticising this service; their precious iPods are the epitomy of a closed and restrictive system.

The iPod was developed to play music in only one format. It was designed so it could only play music either converted to AAC or bought from iTunes already in the "protected" AAC format. Music can only be transfered to the iPod via iTunes. Music bought from iTunes can only be played on iPods. Yes I know they recently introduced DRM free music but it happens to be watermarked. Lets hope that song you bought doesn't acccidentally end up on a file sharing site or service, you could have music industry lawyers banging down your door.

At least Microsoft's "Play for Sure" DRM system is supposed to work with any third party device licensed to use their DRM.

Also, Telkom is not the only music company using this restrictive form of DRM, Musica has had a download service for a few years now and also uses Microsoft's wma format, so does Pick 'n Pay's download site.

I know we all loathe Telkom. But if you want to blame anyone, blame organisations like the RIAA and the greedy companies they represent.
 
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ebudae said:
Poor service with regards to this service aside, this is one time I will not blame Telkom. And I find it very amusing that iPod owners would bother criticising this service; their precious iPods are the epitomy of a closed and restrictive system.

The iPod was developed to play music in only one format. It was designed so it could only play music either converted to AAC or bought from iTunes already in the "protected" AAC format. Music can only be transfered to the iPod via iTunes. Music bought from iTunes can only be played on iPods. Yes I know they recently introduced DRM free music but it happens to be watermarked. Lets hope that song you bought doesn't acccidentally end up on a file sharing site or service, you could have music industry lawyers banging down your door.

At least Microsoft's "Play for Sure" DRM system is supposed to work with any third party device licensed to use their DRM.

Also, Telkom is not the only music company using this restrictive form of DRM, Musica has had a download service for a few years now and also uses Microsoft's wma format, so does Pick 'n Pay's download site.

I know we all loathe Telkom. But if you want to blame anyone, blame organisations like the RIAA and the greedy companies they represent.
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I don't know the history of the ipod, so you may be right historically - but nowadays ipods happily play mp3s. Yes, you still have to use iTunes (software) to load it onto your ipod, but you don't need to use iTunes (the store) to buy it.

As for Telkom not being the only ones - no, they aren't, and all the others suck too :(
 
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Yes, you still have to use iTunes (software) to load it onto your ipod
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or you can use a whole bunch of 3rd party apps

Fairplay DRM is easily circumventable and not very restrictive - you can play it on up to 5 PCs as well as burn it to a CD. Not quit Apples and Apples (pun intended)
 
Cathryn said:
I don't know the history of the ipod, so you may be right historically - but nowadays ipods happily play mp3s. Yes, you still have to use iTunes (software) to load it onto your ipod, but you don't need to use iTunes (the store) to buy it.
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I use Amarok (under SuSE Linux 10.3) to upload my MP3's to my iPod.

So I don't need any Apple iToonz things to do it - and iToonz is teh sux btw... didn't like it at first sight, prolly never will.
 
Cathryn said:
I don't know the history of the ipod, so you may be right historically - but nowadays ipods happily play mp3s. Yes, you still have to use iTunes (software) to load it onto your ipod, but you don't need to use iTunes (the store) to buy it.

As for Telkom not being the only ones - no, they aren't, and all the others suck too :(
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Okay, my bad. It seems the iPod can play the following formats, MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio file formats.

This still doesn't change the fact that music bought from iTunes can only be played on the iPod or on your pc via iTunes. If you are willing to pay more, you can buy a watermarked DRM free version.
 
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