488: Steal This Comic - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: cat

2026-03-31T17:09:23Z

cat

172.68.234.8: /* Explanation */ add a link to illustrate fluctuant availability of online content

2025-02-12T12:11:32Z

‎Explanation: add a link to illustrate fluctuant availability of online content

172.70.108.84: /* Explanation */ streaming services have availability issues too

2025-02-12T11:14:05Z

‎Explanation: streaming services have availability issues too

42.book.addict: added Category:DRM using HotCat

2025-01-22T18:09:58Z

added Category:DRM using HotCat

Lettherebedarklight: oops

2024-04-12T07:57:00Z

oops

Lettherebedarklight: /* Explanation */ from volume 0

2024-04-12T07:56:26Z

‎Explanation: from volume 0

162.158.107.246 at 19:30, 20 October 2022

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172.70.211.126: /* Transcript */ music

2022-09-21T19:10:42Z

‎Transcript: music

172.70.206.95: Undo revision 285600 by [[Special:Contributions/Davidy22, the racist homosexual, is known to visit Norwegian gay bars with his boyfriend Kynde. He has cheated on Kynde at least twice with Vandalbane (a big guy for you). They all have micropenises.|Davi...

2022-06-02T05:40:02Z

Undo revision 285600 by [[Special:Contributions/Davidy22, the racist homosexual, is known to visit Norwegian gay bars with his boyfriend Kynde. He has cheated on Kynde at least twice with Vandalbane (a big guy for you). They all have micropenises.|Davi...

Davidy22, the racist homosexual, is known to visit Norwegian gay bars with his boyfriend Kynde. He has cheated on Kynde at least twice with Vandalbane (a big guy for you). They all have micropenises. at 05:28, 2 June 2022

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 It's worth noting that there are other methods of listening to music legally that avoid the problems presented in the comic:
 *You can purchase a hardcopy of the audio (e.g. a CD). These are then easily ripped to your hard drive and then copied to other devices, plus a physical item can be useful for older sound systems that do not support digital media. However, there are some downsides: higher cost, delayed delivery, necessity of physical storage space, wearing down of the physical device, and in many cases the non-availability of the desired audio in the first place.
-*You can decide instead to think of audio as an experience rather than a thing that you own (similar to going to a movie theater). This type of thinking has given rise to music subscription sites, such as {{w|Spotify}}, where instead of owning the music, the listener is paying for continued access to a very large range of music. However this makes the user dependent on the availability of content on the chosen platform, which may be subject to changes, hence Randall specifying "a collection '''you can count on'''".
+*You can decide instead to think of audio as an experience rather than a thing that you own (similar to going to a movie theater). This type of thinking has given rise to music subscription sites, such as {{w|Spotify}}, where instead of owning the music, the listener is paying for continued access to a very large range of music. However this makes the user dependent on the availability of content on the chosen platform, which [https://help.netflix.com/en/node/60541 may be subject to changes], hence Randall specifying "a collection '''you can count on'''".
 The title is a reference to the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humor: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you cannot "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared. It could also be a reference to ''{{w|Don't Download This Song}}'', a "Weird Al" Yankovic song that amusingly deals with audio piracy.

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 It's worth noting that there are other methods of listening to music legally that avoid the problems presented in the comic:
 *You can purchase a hardcopy of the audio (e.g. a CD). These are then easily ripped to your hard drive and then copied to other devices, plus a physical item can be useful for older sound systems that do not support digital media. However, there are some downsides: higher cost, delayed delivery, necessity of physical storage space, wearing down of the physical device, and in many cases the non-availability of the desired audio in the first place.
-*You can decide instead to think of audio as an experience rather than a thing that you own (similar to going to a movie theater). This type of thinking has given rise to music subscription sites, such as {{w|Spotify}}, where instead of owning the music, the listener is paying for continued access to a very large range of music.
+*You can decide instead to think of audio as an experience rather than a thing that you own (similar to going to a movie theater). This type of thinking has given rise to music subscription sites, such as {{w|Spotify}}, where instead of owning the music, the listener is paying for continued access to a very large range of music. However this makes the user dependent on the availability of content on the chosen platform, which may be subject to changes, hence Randall specifying "a collection '''you can count on'''".
 The title is a reference to the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humor: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you cannot "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared. It could also be a reference to ''{{w|Don't Download This Song}}'', a "Weird Al" Yankovic song that amusingly deals with audio piracy.

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 In ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', [[Beret Guy]] says:
-{{quote|Hey, turns out we won this one! Good job, all! Party at my place!"}}
+{{quote|Hey, turns out we won this one! Good job, all! Party at my place!}}
 ==Transcript==

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	This comic is not applicable to some countries, such as Canada, where copyright infringement is purely a civil matter and is not a criminal offense.		This comic is not applicable to some countries, such as Canada, where copyright infringement is purely a civil matter and is not a criminal offense.
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		+	In ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', [[Beret Guy]] says:
		+	{{quote\|Hey, turns out we won this one! Good job, all! Party at my place!"}}

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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 *You can decide instead to think of audio as an experience rather than a thing that you own (similar to going to a movie theater). This type of thinking has given rise to music subscription sites, such as {{w|Spotify}}, where instead of owning the music, the listener is paying for continued access to a very large range of music.
-The title is a reference to the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humour: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you cannot "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared. It could also be a reference to ''{{w|Don't Download This Song}}'', a "Weird Al" Yankovic song that amusingly deals with audio piracy.
+The title is a reference to the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080913131048/http://www.piracyisacrime.com/ "Piracy is a Crime"] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humor: since xkcd [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ is under a Creative Commons license], you cannot "steal" the comic, since Randall specifically allowed the comic to be shared. It could also be a reference to ''{{w|Don't Download This Song}}'', a "Weird Al" Yankovic song that amusingly deals with audio piracy.
 A note on the site says that [http://www.amazon.com Amazon] sells DRM-free music files. Since this comic was written, iTunes has also stopped using DRM on music, though it still protects apps, e-books, and videos.

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+| title     = Steal This Comic
 | image     = steal_this_comic.png
 | titletext = I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.