[GRLUG] legal drm-free mp3 downloads on ubuntu

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Jan 26 08:36:55 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:42 -0500, Topher wrote:
> Top posting because I'm not really responding to any specific thing below.
> I looked into the Amazon app, and even downloaded it, but I just couldn't 
> bring myself to use root to install a closed source Amazon app on my linux 
> box.  Yeah, it's probably fine, but Amazon has shown no qualms about being 
> evil in the past, and I didn't think it was worth it.

Ignore the stupid download app.  I get all my MP3s from Amazon, I've
never installed their stupid download-manager;  I just download the MP3
like downloading any other file.  There is no requirement to use their
silly app.  There is no DRM (other than it being a proprietary format).



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