Members ibanezconvert Posted January 4, 2009 Members Share Posted January 4, 2009 So I have had a computer now for over 5 years. I have used various players, and various online stores, to purchase songs/albums, and have built up a small collection of my favorite music for all occassions of some 1200 songs. Recently, I had to get my computer's hard drive wiped and get Windows reistalled due to some very devastating viruses/trojans/etc that made it literally grind to a halt and stop functioning. Before this was done, I purchased an external hard drive, and moved all my pics and music to it. Today, while setting everything up after the computer has been reformatted, I got all the various programs installed and went to set up my music. Somehow, I now have no rights to play or otherwise use a whole lot of it due to "license rights" that cannot be found, a bunch of double-speak about DSM, etc etc...Basically, it seems that my thousand dollar plus, carefully selected-over-many-years music collection is now useless due to these so called license rights that I cannot seem to update or open or whatever - Can anyone tell me what the F**k is going on? I purchased the music.I don't condone pirating music, and I've never done it that I know of - I've paid 99 cents per song for what I thought was the rights to listen to and copy music that I love. Now I can't play it. If there are a lot more details you need but you think you know anything about this sh*t and could give me some advice, let me know what info I can provide so that you can give me the best answer - this freaking sucks!!!! Do I have a right to seek legal action if songs that I paid for are no longer playable? I do not have $1200 to replace this collection, nor do I have $$$ for lawyer fees, or time to persue this nonsense online ( yeah, right - talk about TOO MUCH INFO!!!) but after the hell I've had to go through trying to save my computer from the malicious bullsh*t spyware/adware/viruses/trojans/etc that bombard it 24/7, I really don't want to know that my musicis now unusable. What an absolute slap in the face, go-smash-{censored} situation if that's case... How can these machines be so great and yet so utterly freaking screwed up at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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