Comment on Bandcamp... What now?
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months agoI would challenge “unlimited” re-download in a FOSS market. This puts the long-term hosting on the market, vs the user, and is a challenge for current platforms. Perhaps re-download for a time, and of course DRM free is the key.
JonEFive@midwest.social 11 months ago
Man, it’s like the good old days of buying physical media. You lose or scratch your CD, you don’t get a new one for free.
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I feel like there needs to be a solution to this. Thankfully, artists don’t generally have hugely enormous catalogs that would take up terabytes of space (my entire collection is less than 400GB, which is many, many times larger than any single recording artists catalog, even the Beatles).
One run I have with limited downloads is that broken CD memory. I bought a mobile app that is about $200 and they limit the number of times you can request are-download and I think it’s messed up. I’ve had to store that APK on multiple flash drives, off-site, etc.