It is for people who rent out slices of a computer to a bunch of different people and promise that the script kiddie that lives on the same machine as you can't steal your members-only cat photos (e.g. cloud providers.)
Like yes hypothetically they could do that. But being an info sec person what I can tell you is much more likely is that 2 years ago a developer was having a bug that he fixed by downgrading the library that interacted with the database. It turned out there was a vulnerability in that version of the library allowing SQL injection, but now that is a core piece of business functionality and no cycles can be spared till "next sprint" which will never come because the company is still a scrappy startup that moves fast and break things. (Despite now having 100 developers and millions in revenue) then someone finds out and can exfiltrate your entire DB in about 20 minutes with automated tools.
Or what is more realistic is that they send an email to Sarah the the CEOs PA that says she needs to grant access to "John Smith" and she puts in her username and credentials in the corresponding link. Then those credentials are used to access GitHub (of course the secretary has GitHub access because one time the CEO wanted to look at something and couldn't so now he demands his secretary has full GitHub access) and then they find the root db username and password because after it was accidentally committed the intern decided just to delete it and put in a new commit because he didn't want to get in trouble. That attack took 10 minutes and an email.
My point being is if you are running something that is so secure it needs to be protected from this kind of hypothetical attack, while in that case you're probably already paying for a dedicated instance in the first place.
Nope, the only time I discovered music on Bandcamp was when some indie label was selling their whole catalog for a low price and I got the whole bundle. 99% of the time, I knew what I was looking for and came there for the lossless digital releases and/or to support the artist.
I was under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that music you purchased in iTunes had to stay in iTunes. Can I take my files where I please or do they have to reside in the Apple walled garden?
iTunes purchases have been DRM free since the mid 2000s. Most, but not all are also available in Apple Lossless format, which means you can convert them to whatever format you prefer without any quality concerns.
You can download AAC files that are AFAIK digitally watermarked with your Apple ID to prevent piracy, but you can use freely in all your client tools. But they are not lossless. I don't know if iTMS sells lossless music.
However, they do cap the number of times you're permitted to download our collection.
I’d been wondering this myself and now suspect I’ve written off Apple too soon. If I buy music from Apple on my iPhone it’s not trapped on Apple devices?
When I first switched to iOS I didn’t see any way to play my music in Apple’s music player and I assumed the door was closed both directions.
I think you still need iTunes on your computer for it. You have to import your music into your iTunes library and sync your phone with a computer.
Purchases, similarly, can be redownloaded on the computer. They're all DRM-free AAC, since the early 2000s.
I've mostly used Spotify in the past decade, but it seems to all work the way it always has. They just shove Apple Music (not the same as iTunes) in your face when you open the Music app, until you turn it off.
How much of my money goes to the artists when I purchase with iTunes Store? If I recall correctly, Bandcamp gives ~80% usually to the artists, except on Bandcamp Fridays when they give ~90% to the artists (waiving their own fee).
iTunes, Amazon, streaming platforms, etc. do not deal directly with artists. Apple gives the majority (not sure of the percentage) to a distributor (LANDR, DistroKid, CD Baby, etc) who is responsible for the song, and then they take a negotiated cut and pay it to the artist.
DistroKid, for example, charges about $20/year to keep all of your music releases on 100 or so streaming and download services, but takes no cut of the proceeds.
This distribution method is far and away the norm nowadays, especially with dance music, because it gets music everywhere, right alongside artists signed to labels. Bandcamp appeals more to the hipster crowd.
You're right. The numbers I had in mind were averages:
> on Bandcamp Fridays, an average of 93% of your money reaches the artist/label (after payment processor fees). When you make a purchase on any other day (as millions of you have, with more than $1 billion now paid directly to artists), an average of 82% reaches the artist/label.
Haha yes of course! I missed my own comment and thought you were talking about Bandcamp, when I was the one talking about iTunes... Sorry for the confusion :)
> requires logging in again across all of my devices and kids/spouse accounts that require it for purchases.
Do you use your apple ID to log into your kids/spouses devices or do you have some kind of setup where they have their own apple ID but you just login with yours for purchases? Genuinely curious. If it's the latter, I didn't know that was a thing.
It is for people who rent out slices of a computer to a bunch of different people and promise that the script kiddie that lives on the same machine as you can't steal your members-only cat photos (e.g. cloud providers.)