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Virgin Digital, RIP

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 25

And so it was that Virgin Digital, the online music outpost of the music retailer Virgin Megastore, bid the world goodbye. But here’s the interesting bit: The store is advising to back up their songs, and it seems, from what I’m reading on Ars Technica and Slashdot that this implies burning their songs to CDs and then re-import them as MP3s. Can that be right? Seems logical to me. But is it legal?

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John Faughnan

September 25, 2007 11:21 AM

Ever try creating a CD from a lossy compressed song then creating an MP3 from the result?

Don't bother. The result is horrible, and I'm no audiophile.

More education in what DRM means. This is good. The pain Virgin's naive customers now feel may help avert greater pain for all of us in years to come.

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