I’m not defending Apple. Just stating that at one time iTunes was DRM free.

There was DRM from 2003-2009

But then later for like $10 I could take all my pirate music, legitimize it, and download a copy from iTunes if theirs was better quality. That was nice.

Haha, no, just a monopoly, but that does make me appreciate the absurdity of it, thanks. Ironically being off the grid is the only alternative.

One of the local electric companies

Already leagues ahead of me :(

All told, there’s now 400 community-owned broadband networks serving more than 700 U.S. towns and cities nationwide, and the pace of growth shows no sign of slowing down.

Some of these networks are directly owned by a municipality. Some are freshly-built cooperatives. Some are extensions of the existing city-owned electrical utility. All of them are an organic, popular, grass-roots community-driven reaction to telecom market failure and expensive, patchy access.

Cannot imagine happening in Canada but we desperately need it.

I think the point was this community is for retro games. I do see why it’s relevant.

Some private trackers allow for interviews without an invite.

Probably that OP mentioned that.

That’s mentioned near the bottom of the post.

I still have that shitty plastic mousepad somewhere.

aphantasiacs cryin rn

Try this

I feel your pain.

Oh yeah

Kinda like you when it comes to social interaction?

I think it would be obvious to any discerning listener what music is actually made by a person

I’m not so sure anymore. Udio’s output is more obvious but Suno has gotten scarily good. I’ll still always crave the human element though and I make my music for myself.

Alright, that clip was funny but he said he used the R word, not that he called people it. And it wasn’t an uncommon word at all twenty years ago. There are better points to make.