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by sspiff
868 days ago
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> The industry could not break compatibility with over a 15 years' worth of CD players, especially since people had them in their cars, etc. Sure, not at first. But how long has it been since most people interacted with a CD player now? Most teenagers haven't, ever. Yet here we are, music is still being sold on CDs. Not that I want to put the music industry on some kind of pedestal as a paragon of virtue in the digital age, but it's certainly odd and noteworthy. > Now, since CSS was cracked, DVDs are, in practice, no harder to rip. But a company like Apple can't ship a DVD ripper in iTunes. DVD quality is not really of sufficient quality for most consumers today, though. Meanwhile, CD quality continues to match or exceed modern streaming services. |
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Yeah, but it's a lot harder to switch from a DRM-less digital download format to a DRMed one. Who in their right mind would choose the DRM store, then?
Oh, but this is also sort of what they did, because Spotify and Apple Music and whatnot have DRM. Not that it's unbreakable or anything. But they have it — for streaming.
> DVD quality is not really of sufficient quality for most consumers today, though. Meanwhile, CD quality continues to match or exceed modern streaming services.
Yes, but I was talking about 20 years ago. DeCSS had come out in 1999, but libdvdcss was released in 2004. It has been pretty easy to rip a DVD for someone in the know since then.
Much like CDs, Blu-rays (especially 4K Blu-rays) are of better quality than you'll find on most streaming platforms. Blu-rays are pretty much rippable, too, but far fewer people have a Blu-ray drive, and most people don't care.