viste Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Hi! Let's talk about DRM-music. I beleive the DRM system just hurts the rights of the subscribers. I've bought a handful of songs from iTunes and they were found worthless for me (my mp3-player can't support protected format). Is it fair to strip away the DRM for private use as it shown here? http://www.soundtaxi.info/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxthrusters Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 DRM is a strange idea. It does nothing to stop piracy since anything that can be heard can be copied. DRM inconveniences customers, and violates a customer's fair-dealing rights. In the USA, the DMCIA makes it illegal for Americans to exercise their own "fair use" rights.DRM costs money, and it is the customer who ultimately pays for it. DRM adds to processing cycles on computers and shortens battery life on devices.It seems to me that the only benefactor of DRM is the companies that develop and sell it.I don't have references for any of this, but just google it to find out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Hi! Let's talk about DRM-music. I beleive the DRM system just hurts the rights of the subscribers. I've bought a handful of songs from iTunes and they were found worthless for me (my mp3-player can't support protected format). Is it fair to strip away the DRM for private use as it shown here? http://www.soundtaxi.info/iTunes is not the only one. Connect, Napster, the upcoming Zune store, all of them use DRM. Even VHS use macrovision for copy protection. The fact that US have DMCA makes thing worse. I think soundtaxi is still legal, since it only captures the decrypted audio from memory, not actually cracking/reverse engineered the DRM themselves. Still, it's a hassle, plus the fact that for these apps, sometimes any sound played during the capturing process will be included (eg. if you have windows' sounds playing while converting a music).DRM is here to stay, unless people actually stops buying them. However, look at millions of people flocking itunes, napster, etc. The future is not better, with heavily DRMed HD-DVD and blu-ray, plus DRM by design windows Vista on the horizon. So, best thing you can do is educate yourself, friends, and family members to avoid DRMed content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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