More focus on indie artists but let you buy tracks from them and download the files on your device.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
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Oppose to DRM ! Buy DRM-FREE digital medias
DRM (Digital Right(Restrictions) Management) are defective by design you should buy DRM free if possible !
More infos on https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Music
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows Phone
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android Auto
- AirPlay
+6
For electronic music this plateform has a quite big library and let you buy songs, more oriented for DJs.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Online
RIP your music CD library
Physical CD aren't protected and pretty much meant to be ripped on your machine.
I don't recommand buying on Amazon. But if you buy physical music (CD, Vinyl and maybe cassette) on Amazon. They give you a free high quality RIP to download on Amazon Music, honestly that's nice.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Auto
- Apple TV
- Android Wear
- Kindle Fire
- Android TV
- Apple Car Play
+5
Plugging a CD burner with a music dic in your Mac, Apple Music would allow you to rip it easily
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Apple Car Play
- Xbox
+5
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- PortableApps.com
Video Games
The entire library is DRM-Free!
Has a couple of documentaries/movies but it's not a big catalog.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Epic Games Store
Steam games does not necessarly comes with DRM, sometimes games don't have any, sometimes only the offline features are DRM free it really depends. PC Gaming Wiki has a list of DRM-free Steam titles with notes: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- SteamOS
+4
Movies and documentaries
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+2
eBooks
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Sells collections of DRM-free ebooks, with two bundles available at any point in time. While they also sell games, software and mobile apps, these are not reliably DRM-free and we reccomend checking in detail before making any purchases.
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Produces new and attractive editions of ebooks sourced from
Project Gutenberg with additional proofing, using modern typography, updated font kerning, and in the latest ebook formats.
Audiobooks
The audiobook imprint of eMusic, a DRM-free subscription service that we also recommend, and for a monthly fee provides audiobooks that are all completely DRM-free.
A wonderful archive of audio eBooks, completely free from DRM. Highlights include recordings of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, and Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Auto
- Apple Car Play
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Kindle Fire
+2
DRM-free audiobooks in MP3 format, although audio book rentals require the use of its proprietary mobile application.
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Comments
Of course, this is all interesting, but what to do if in the future we are waiting for:
You should also not forget that media such as discs and flash drives (hard drives) are not eternal. And forever buying these media to store these files is an expensive pleasure.
No matter how many media I buy, there will be a "Domino effect" afterwards.
And I described only legal ways.
I don't even want to describe illegal methods, and I don't see the point in it.
I look forward to your interesting opinion on this matter.
The internet will never be passport required. Maybe the most popular centralized service will be but it will incentivize people to move to other network such as Reticulum, use p2p technologies more and more and bypass legal restrictions (like they already are).
For buying let's hope capitalism will create enough competition and that people will start realizing renting is not owning and favorise alternative owning methods.
Yes nothing last forever that's why you buy DRM-free, you can create backups (3, 2, 1 rules) on hard drives, flash drives, hosting on your NAS or a VPS so you always have a copy available. My digital media backup aren't perfect because it's terabytes of data but I often have physical copy (original if possible), RAID hard drive bulk on my homelab, offline hard drives. And for now I still often have the online copies from the source such as gog, bandcamp and so on.
In my country downloading copyrighted material for free isn't illegal, however sharing it publicly (or outside private use) is. So p2p BitTorrent and IPFS are illegal. However I am willing to take the risk of having some media seeding on my BitTorrent client because moraly speaking, freeing the culture and making it accessible is way more important than giving money to IP owners (that often aren't the artists but big rich companies). I support DRM-free digital media, I also buy with DRM (unfortunately) but heck yeah I also sailed on the seven seas because culture was created to be shared and the internet made it possible to do it at almost zero cost. I support Free Licensed culture and advocate for it! I am for the destruction of DRM as it should be illegal from a pragmatic eye and most of all I am against copyright! I thought for many years copyright was a great thing and that CC was cool but couldn't be viable but nowadays with generative machine there is no better time to abolish this non-sense. Creation of the mind should be shared as common good and common knowledge for humanity. It's not like physical property, you can share them without loosing anything and the internet changed how digital property should be defined. Culture has been taken over by capitalism, we should act with the tools we have to abolish all these stupid corpo and state nations mindset that they impose into the cyberspace, they have no power their.