Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep

DJ Phase writes "Warp Records, an independent label for electronic music (featuring artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Boards of Canada), has made their entire back catalog available thru Bleep, a new digital download service. Individual tracks are $1.35 for those of us in the USA, with EPs and full albums in the $4 to $10 price range. You can download Aphex Twin's rare, groundbreaking Hangable Auto Bulb EP for $4.29. To quote from the FAQ: 'We are at present the only store to offer very high quality MP3 files,' and 'Bleep music has no DRM or copy protection built in. We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals'."

I believe...

[graveyardduckx]

I believe potential criminals should be treated like customers too.

May not treat customers like criminals...

[mgebbers]

But given the color scheme on their website, they treat all their customers as if they wear sunglasses while using a computer.

And then it went Bleep Bleep Bleep

[ObviousGuy]

It was a good MP3

Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm so excited, I'm going to spend a few hundred dollars on their music and upload it to every P2P service listed on zeropaid.com :)

Bleep

[tliet]

Was that the last thing the server said after this article got posted on Slashdot?

Re:and there's only one problem

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't name you any Country Music artists other than Garth Brooks... that doesn't mean a thing.

Not true. It means 2 things:

1) You're less likely to be a G.W. Bush fan.
2) God doesn't hate you.

Re:I believe...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know what P2P service has the most tracks from these guys? Thanks.

Has the department of homeland secuirty . . .

[WinterpegCanuck]

been notified about this un-american attitude of innocent before proven guilty? We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals.

Massive catalog

[sacrilicious]

Warp Records... featuring artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Boards of Canada...

Wow, their bands run the gamut from A to... well, B.

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Bleep

[Brandybuck]

So I was playing this song... you know... when my computer starts going "bleep bleep bleep"...

Re:May not treat customers like criminals...

[Kent Recal]

Argh.
For a moment I almost forgot why flash had such a bad reputation. Thanks for the reminder TDR.
(macromedia should sue you)

Re:May not treat customers like criminals...

[oDDmON oUT]

Because it was put together by TDR

<instant submission to http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com>SWEETMUTHAOGAWHD!! </instant submission>

I think I have retinal damage!

Re:If only the site was nice...

[Eivind]

How exactly could a flash-site be more accessible than html ?

• How well do flash-sites work for blind people with screen-readers ?
• How does it work to bookmark a spesific part of a flash-site ? (say a product from a product-catalog)
• How accessible is a flash-site if you are using a text-only browser ?
• How do I choose the font and fontsize I like on a flash-site ?
• How do I change part of a flash-animation without forcing the repeating user to download the entire flash-animation over ?
• How well do flash-sites work for printout and offline reading ?

That's just for a start. Sorry, but "can do moving vector-graphics and sounds" just aren't by a ligthyear enough to make up for those fairly serious problems.

In Practice, offcourse, as you hint when you say "in theory", flash-sites are much *worse* that is - they have a lot of *additional* problems that they could, in principle, assuming the people who choose to make their web-site in flash where sane, avoid. Problems such as the entire site being stuck in a fixed 400x300 box, and containing no useful info whatsoever after you get over the flashing-jumping-singind-dancing vector-graphics.