Physical Heavensward OST instead of itunes?

[Laraul]

It's proprietary in the sense that A) you can't even purchase music without first downloading iTunes, and B) you have to re-encode it to put it onto a non-Apple MP3 player, neither of which are things I wish to do. With Amazon and Google, you click a button, and boom, you've got an MP3. No program download or re-encoding needed.

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

iTunes distributes music encoded using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding standard. It's widely supported across a wide range a portable players and devices. Android and Windows Phones both support AAC. As the PS3, PSP, PSVita, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft's Zune. Blackberry does too. It's a widely supported standard.

Seriously pull your head out from under the ground once in a while...

[TheUltimate3]

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

[Lucke]

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

To be fair, Steam has said that if it fails for whatever reason and needs to shutdown, it would release code that makes Steam games playable in offline mode/without steam should anything happen. Also I dunno about iTunes, but if they shutdown and make all your purchases useless, they would get a ton of flak and their business would prolly be ruined, so, they probably have some form of contingency plan allowing you to play the songs in any music player.

Again, the moon would need to collide with the earth sending it head-long into the sun for those 2 companies to fail.

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