DRM (Digital Right(Restrictions) Management) are defective by design you should buy DRM free if possible !
More infos on https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Platform for exploring a vast global music catalog, with direct artist support, instant streaming and download of DRM-free purchases, and physical merchandise.
More focus on indie artists but let you buy tracks from them and download the files on your device.
7digital's web store lets you browse, preview, purchase, and download music from a catalogue of over 18 million tracks. 7Digital offers music files in MP3 or FLAC format. No subscription is required.
Has a good library of DRM-free songs.
Streaming and download platform delivering lossless and high-resolution audio, offering over 100 million tracks, human-curated playlists, and global availability.
A streaming service with a subscription that let you buy DRM-free albums and songs.
Beatport DJ is a Web-based DJ Software, that includes Mixing capabilities and a Music discovery platform (for EDM tracks and Mixes).
For electronic music this plateform has a quite big library and let you buy songs, more oriented for DJs.
Subvert is a cooperative-owned music marketplace. Artists and labels sell digital music directly to listeners. Listeners buy and own what they pay for. The platform itself is owned by the people who use it.
Interesting Bandcamp competitor owned by its community.
Physical CD aren't protected and pretty much meant to be ripped on your machine.
Stream and purchase music with Amazon's platform. Enjoy ad-free music and podcasts for Prime members, or upgrade to 100 million ad-free songs with Unlimited.
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.
Apple Music is all about the music, with the highest audio quality; exclusive, in-depth content and unparalleled access to the artists you love–all ad-free.
Plugging a CD burner with a music dic in your Mac, Apple Music would allow you to rip it easily
Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media Player
You can use the default Windows Media Player app to RIP your CD collcection
Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...
To automatically manage your library's metadata so it looks good.
Digital store offering DRM-free classics and new PC titles with no client needed, 30-day returns, curated content, regular updates, and extra downloadable items.
The entire library is DRM-Free!
Has a couple of documentaries/movies but it's not a big catalog.
Indie-focused digital marketplace and community platform offering customizable pricing, game hosting, stats tracking, asset sales, and manageable app downloads.
More focus on indie games, experiments and gamejam projects.
Zoom Platform Digital storefront sells classic PC games and exclusive titles through their download service at a low prices, DRM Free games, that are updated to run on the latest versions of Windows, Linux or Mac.
Another big library of DRM-free games
Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of...
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
Vimeo is the best way to get your videos online in the highest quality with great tools to share publicly or privately.
Some documentaries, short-films or even movies can be bought on author's vimeo profile.
Khan Academy is not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
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.
Platform for writing, publishing, and selling ebooks or courses, supporting Markdown, ongoing updates, GitHub/Dropbox sync, quizzes, and 80% royalties.
Used by authors and publishers to publish amazing in-progress and completed books
Digital bundles and a storefront offer games, books, and software with pay-what-you-want pricing, DRM-free options, charity support, and indie content.
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.
Affordable formatting for inclusion in Premium Catalog for SmashWords and Kindle Direct Publishing.
DRM-Free ebooks from independent authors
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
More oriented into educational textbooks
Provides access to over 75,000 free e-books in multiple formats, including EPUB and Kindle, focused mainly on older literature with expired US copyright, no registration needed.
Public domain eBooks
"Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
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.
An archive focusing on anarchism, anarchist texts, and texts of interest for anarchists. Within the scope of our use of the term “anarchism” we have been quite broad, but broad does not mean infinite, and basically shrinks down to a set of ideas against the State and the capital.
Free and DRM-Free anarchy related books and writings
eStories has over 120,000 audiobook titles, including best-sellers spanning every genre and new releases added each week. Personalized search and discovery tools make it easy to find your next story.
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.
Free audiobooks from the public domain, volunteer recorded, open source, and accessible globally, hosted by Internet Archive.
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.
AudiobooksNow is a digital platform that offers audiobooks for purchase and download. For over a decade, we have provided users with access to a large selection of titles across various genres. Audiobooks can be purchased individually, or users can subscribe to our Club Pricing...
Has a big collection of audiobooks, with over 95% of them available DRM-free.
Browse our audio book downloads, get free shipping and discounts of 30% off audio books on CD, or join our audiobook club for even more savings.
DRM-free audiobooks in MP3 format, although audio book rentals require the use of its proprietary mobile application.
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Hey you should also add the Freegal App, it allows 5 weekly downloads of songs that are DRM free & can be copied to other devices/services. It only requires that you you have a qualified library card to sign up.
Interesting, will look into it!
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.