“People trying to buy songs from Puretracks Inc.’s online music store after the company announced it is offering MP3 files without anti-copying measures complained Thursday that the files wouldn’t play on some computers,” CBC News reports.
“CBC and other media outlets on Wednesday reported Puretracks’ announcement that it would immediately offer an initial catalogue of 50,000 songs in the MP3 file format devoid of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions,” CBC News reports.
“‘It appears that all the tracks at this music store are toxic Windows DRM crippleware. Stay away — far away,’ Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow wrote in a post to the blog Thursday after being alerted to the problem by readers,” CBC News reports. “Users of computers made by Apple Inc. were directed to a page on Puretracks’ website that read, in part: ‘Our current music store uses Windows Media technology to play our music files. Unfortunately that means our songs are incompatible with your operating system. Furthermore, Apple’s iTunes FairPlay system is currently not available to us for use with iPods.'” (See: http://macdailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/macsplash.gif)
Full article here.
The PureTracks Encoding Dude: Eh, whaddya mean DRM-free MP3? You sent the press release out already?! You tarlas are brutal. Brutal! None of you PR hosers said a thing about this to me, eh? I’ll have 50,000 of ’em done by end of next month. And, for that, ya goofs are gonna owe me at least a couple Molson two-fours, eh?
Related article:
Canadian download store Puretracks starts selling DRM-free music – February 22, 2007
These guys don’t know much do they. Windows media format is already copy protected, Idiots! And that’s not an MP3 format either.
morons
as that great philosopher H. Simpson would say…
“Doh!”
The fools. Must be drinking too much of that crap imported American beer or something.
Are the complainants resident of Canada? The site says it is only accessible to residents in Canada…
Buncha hosers. Stop munchin yer Timbits and git yer nose outta that box ‘o’ beer lads. Must be a local brew using tritiated water from the Pickering Nuclear power plant.
From the Puretracks FAQ concerning new MP3 downloads
Q: Does this mean I can buy songs from Puretracks on a Mac?
A: Not yet. But we are definitely working on it.
LMFAO.. I’m Canadian and that is some funny shit. Obviously we don’t talk like that (I’m on the West coast) but out East they sure do. LOL
Where is my Kraft Dinner!
Eric Willard is a moron.
Bill Gates is a moron.
Windows Vista is crap.
Puretracks is garbage, and so are the people behind it.
MP3’s do not have any DRM and are not based on Windows Media at all. For them to deny Mac users due to using WMA files means their entire promotion is fraudulent.
Here’s hoping they go out of business quickly!
Okay, another thing I’d like to point out: just because some dork in Toronto thinks we’re looking for a Canada-only iTunes wannabe, doesn’t me we Canadians are. iTunes is still the way to go.
Phillip! Phillip!
Monkey claw!
if you go to their “Contact Us” link at their site it comes up with “Sorry Mac OS is not supported”.
now that’s an awful lot of stupid.
Nice take dude, you got the accent down pat. Drop the molson though and gimme some Moosehead.
To the markers of Janus DRM (MS) the ads were true. They do not consider Macs real computers.
“CBC and other media outlets on Wednesday reported Puretracks’ announcement that it would immediately offer an initial catalogue of 50,000 songs in the MP3 file format devoid of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions,” CBC News reports.
Actually it was only CBC. The “other” media outlets picked up on their story.
Your see, that’s what happens when supposedly legitimate news sources use business
announcements as “News.”
Many of today’s journalists have become lazy and don’t research their stories. How many times
have we seen this lately, only to see the stories retracted when they turn out to be cheap
commercial promotion (Enderle) or FUD (Enderle et al.)
MW – attack!
>CBC…reported Puretracks’ announcement that it would immediately offer an initial catalogue of 50,000 songs in the MP3 file format devoid of…(DRM)…Our current music store uses Windows Media technology…our songs are incompatible with your operating system
What does Windows Media technology have to do with MP3 files? Absolutely nothing other than to play the ubiquitous format! iTunes can play MP3s too.
So, how can manage to make MP3s be incompatible with the operating system itself?
I find the MDN take this time around to be a pitiful example of the lowest kind of humour.
@DB
Please explain? I thought MDS’s attempt at Canadian slang was ok (fer a furiner) but I give them an A for effort. I am Canadian and like most Canadians who use a Mac (and many who don’t) Puretracks suck and MDN’s attempt at humor while ridiculing a company that should be ridiculed to the rafters was fine by this lad.
I noticed that the PureTracks site did a really poor job of copying the iTunes GUI – pitiful.
what i find bizarre is that these idiots don’t even let you see what loveliness you are missing by being a mac user. it’s like “you’re a mac user, you’re not coming in” and the door is slammed in your face. well i certainly am not canadian, or a pc user. or interested in purecraps. pah!
I almost feel pity for all the iTunes wannabes and also rans who are trapped in the Micro$haft crucible or just don’t know any better. Key word is “almost.” I really don’t feel pity at all; those effin’ idiots should have known better! And just as M$’s bullshit is all going down the tubes, they are soon to follow in the wake.
Meanwhile, what’s up with the Zune these days? We hardly ever hear about it anymore. Its almost as if I was having a funny little dream, and now that I’m awake, I realize it was all just a brown pile o’ zune. Everything about Zune is so fsckin’ hilarious, from the brown, to that Allard guy who tries so hard to look cool that it hurts, to the poor girl being raped on the zune-ware error page, to their dumbass comercials showing tweety bird gettin’ fried.
Not everyone in Canada says eh, eh!
The mac splash screen at puretracks now has an addition at the top stating that they are selling mp3s, that the mp3s can be used on anything, but that the download manager program is windows-only.
Guess once you have the mp3s you play on mac, linux, ipod, etc. but you need a windows machine to download them until they write a mac download manager.
some so-called journalists really do not research the facts… DRM free ~~~~ YEAH RIGHT… I don’t think so…
http://corporate.puretracks.com/partners.html
Any researcher on this story could have gotten the real facts in 3 clicks…
shame shame shame