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You just admitted you were able to download the album. If you want to own the music then you download it. You don't buy a movie and then keep it at the store an

by gitweb 6y ago

You just admitted you were able to download the album. If you want to own the music then you download it. You don't buy a movie and then keep it at the store and say whenever I want to watch this to you have to keep it here for me indefinitely until I decide to watch it and then when I do you gotta keep holding onto it until next time.

spijdar 6y ago
You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. However, I wouldn't compare this to a movie store, or a music store. At least while I used it, GPM wasn't positioned as a store where you buy music and take it home, it's an app/ecosystem where you listen to music. So I'd argue a more apt comparison is it's like buying a movie at a store with sofas and televisions for watching the movies, where you can purchase content and ask for it to be displayed, and can optionally take the disk home. Stretching the analogy too far probably, but GPM didn't exactly encourage downloading FWIW -- can only download a song twice ever through the web interface, or all at once through takeout, or through a chrome extension/app, otherwise it's all on the GPM app, where you're "supposed" to listen to it. You do have the right to download DRM-free music though, so at least GPM had that. ... youtube music on the other hand ...
- gambiting 6y ago
  >>this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. Admittedly I haven't done this for a year or two, but last time I bought an album on amazon it came with a digital download which was just DRM-free MP3 files. Maybe that's not the case anymore, I don't know.
- Mindwipe 6y ago
  > You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. You do have the ability to download films on Amazon. (They're DRMed, and you can't transfer them to another device, but they don't expire).

by gitweb 6y ago

spijdar 6y ago

You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. However, I wouldn't compare this to a movie store, or a music store. At least while I used it, GPM wasn't positioned as a store where you buy music and take it home, it's an app/ecosystem where you listen to music. So I'd argue a more apt comparison is it's like buying a movie at a store with sofas and televisions for watching the movies, where you can purchase content and ask for it to be displayed, and can optionally take the disk home. Stretching the analogy too far probably, but GPM didn't exactly encourage downloading FWIW -- can only download a song twice ever through the web interface, or all at once through takeout, or through a chrome extension/app, otherwise it's all on the GPM app, where you're "supposed" to listen to it. You do have the right to download DRM-free music though, so at least GPM had that. ... youtube music on the other hand ...

gambiting 6y ago
>>this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. Admittedly I haven't done this for a year or two, but last time I bought an album on amazon it came with a digital download which was just DRM-free MP3 files. Maybe that's not the case anymore, I don't know.
Mindwipe 6y ago
> You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content. You do have the ability to download films on Amazon. (They're DRMed, and you can't transfer them to another device, but they don't expire).