sredmyer

So they are specificaly blocking their customers by IP. That is precisely opposite of what they claimed in the press released posted by Rich_Guy earlier.[:^)]

One of my all time favorites...Burning Down the House from the Speaking in Tongues album by the Talking Heads 1983.

Although I tend to listen to more mellow stuff, my wife is 10 years younger than me and she says there are three bands she absolutely must hear LOUD!!! 1) “Mandatory Metallica” 2) “Required RUSH” 3) “Obligatory Ozzy” You can see from my signature that I run the RF-7s and an RSW-15 sub. This combo will go to ear splitting levels and will make you think there is an earthquake shaking your house. What amazes me most about the system is that it goes that loud without any discernable (unintended) distortion. The RF-7s are simply awesome speakers. Given enough power they have a very impressive punch all by themselves (without a sub). At one point I had my sub out to Klipsch to repair the amp. During this time I had a friend from out of town visiting. When I demoed the system for him (without the sub) he was simply amazed by the bass I was getting. He thought I must have had a sub hidden somewhere. When he later visited (after I had the sub back) he was completely awe struck. Having said all of that, you should realize that the RF-7s, though a very efficient speaker, really need lots of power to truly shine. At some frequencies these speakers drop from their nominal 8ohm impedance to somewhere around 2.8ohm (I think) and when they do this your amp better have the balls to handle it. Many will tell you that you only need a small amp to drive these speakers to really loud volumes and they are right…the speakers will sound fine with a small amp…but if you really want to hear what they can do give them lots of power.

Those F$*#ing Ba$$#&%s. I say we stage a revolt against all media download sites. Quick everybody gather up all your CDs and send them to Ripit Digital (my CD conversion company []) for conversion. Seriously though I had no idea that DRM could present such serious problems. I thought it only prevented you from playing on multiple devices without permission (ie. sharing with family and friends). I had no idea that if the place from which you purchased the music went out of business you would be SOL. This (I would think) would have to give serious reason for pause to anybody considering purchasing media with DRM.

No you didn't. You rented 500 tracks and now your time is up. Any DRM content that needs to phone home is based on the bad assumption that there is someone to phone home to. Which is the single best reason I can think of to rip our tracks ourselves (to DRM free lossless codec of coarse) from CDs we own. This way we have complete control. []

Well that worked but it is a little hard to read. Here is a link to it on an image hosting site where I just uploaded it. http://i33.tinypic.com/23u4osh.jpg

Maybe this will work

Well not sure why but I am having problems attaching an image...mind give me some pointers on doing it.

Not sure how I can show the date but here is a screen shot of what is currently on my screen

I may be interested in working something out along those lines but as I said I doubt I will have the robots ready before the first of the year. Anyway, if you want to talk further about this lets take it off the forum. You can email me direct at steve AT ripitdigital DOT com. Obviously you will need to remove the spaces and replace the appropriate characters.

Strange indeed. Do you have another PC which has never been logged onto your account with them and from which you have never played one of their DRM'd files...maybe that would allow you to atleast get to their site. What is particularly odd is that in the statement you posted they said they were down to a skeleton crew keeping the lights on for existing customers but not taking on new ones. You are an existing customer and can not get to their site...I am not a customer and can. None of it makes any sense to me. Oh well I hope you are able to get in touch with someone there.

From their "Contact Us" page Contact HDGIANTS Technical Support For technical support, please contact Support@HDGIANTS.com Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. PST or call 775.832.5692 Sales For sales and dealer inquiries, please contact our sales department at Sales@HDGIANTS.com or call 775.832.5692 Marketing For marketing and press inquiries, please contact our marketing department at Marketing@HDGIANTS.com or call 775.832.5692 Content For new content inquiries, please contact our content department at Content@HDGIANTS.com or call 775.832.5692 Corporate Office: HDGIANTS 926 Incline Way Incline Village, NV 89451 Phone: 775.832.5692 Fax: 775.832.5693

That is odd indeed...I am on their site as I write this. I wonder if their site (at least for you) being down has anything to do with your DRM files no longer playing? I am not that up on all the limits imposed by DRM but I suppose maybe the files needs to "phone home" to get permission to be played. Very curious though about how you can not access their site.

Out of curiousity, do you know if their downloads are DRM free or not?

Yes I just tried and I can access the site at www.HDGiants.com. Possibly you need to clear your browsers cache.