This is the same thing many software companies are trying to do...rent you software by the month/year rather than sell it to you.
That way...you never leave, and they get to control everything.
Surely that makes leaving easier, because you're just transferring your subscription to another provider and losing nothing?
I'd be much more likely to switch provider on a subscription service than if I had paid big money for a full software license, or invested in a large music library.
Hard to believe Apple is going to cede this business to Amazon because I don’t know how many (any) people who use their streaming service while I know several who use Spotify. But maybe they’ll use the money they save to buy a streaming company.
Honestly, I have bought less than a couple dozen songs in my life from Apple and I’m an iTunes user. I buy CDs new and used (and break them in pieces after ripping) or buy downloads from smaller outfits when I can. And, yes, sometimes Amazon. So, dinosaur that I am, I’m obviously not helping their download business, and they probably need to do something to try and look current. I think they’re late to the party but we will see.
I just destroy them so they don't end up being resold again and again. Kind of in the hope it might generate at least one new sale for the artist (who might make $0.10 I suppose). So, even though I participate in the used market, especially if I'm replacing something I had in vinyl once upon a time, I kind of break the chain. There's nothing [legally] wrong with donating to charity/thrift shops - keep doing it, because I'm a good customer . (But, yeah, I guess it bothers me to do it.)I am supposing you destroy the CDs for legal reasons? Does donating them to a charity shop instead bother you? (seems to be 'legal' in UK?)
I can copy internally anything I hear in real time through this W7 laptop but I understand Ms have made this impossible or at least very difficult in W10? Daft really since I can easily loop the analogue or even S/PDIF in-outs on my 2496 card!
The concepts of private property and in general ownership, are disintegrating.
No one 'owns' anything. You just rent or lease.
Quite sad.