Re: [mb-users] Are different digital downloads different releases?

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jazzy Jarilith <[email protected]>wrote:

> The use of a digital download or a cd is the same in some ways, not all.
> When you buy a CD, you own the copy of the CD but not the data on it. When
> you download the data (music in this case) from i-Tunes or Amazon, you are
> granted a licence to listen to it. Their terms of service are pretty clear
> about it. You can sell or give a away a CD from your collection, but you
> can't do that with a digital download. Digital media is just that, data.
> That's the reason why I don't see downloading and streaming as being
> different.
>
> As for the topic, "Are digital downloads different releases?", I would
> prefer to keep things simple. Over time a given release may change:
> tomorrow Apple could release a brand new remaster of Abbey Road
> (erasing the current one their shop) that we would not know of it. Trying
> to keep track of such changes will be a pain.
>
> Perhaps we should try to find another way to add digital releases into the
> database.
>

So, for stuff put for free download by the artists with no clear terms at
all, what would you use? The "normal" way, or the "digital" way? And let's
face it, even for shop-stuff, pretty much nobody has ever read or cared
about the terms, which probably wouldn't even hold in court under several
legislations anyway. So I don't see why we should care about them too much.

-- 
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren

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