In all reality, the true purpose of FairUse4WM is really to allow you to use your purchased audio files on any media player. I don't hink that the first use of it was for piracy, much like the use of the iTunes DRM stripper wasn't just to pirate music.
If peopel REALLY wanted free music, they would go ahead and download it for free using any P2P program out there. The sole reason why i don't immerse myself in any DRM program is the fact that my use of the music may be hindered by very restrictive DRM. Buying my MP3's from a russian site that says "Pay me, here's a file, go all willy nilly" sounds better than "Pay me, here's a file that works on a certain amount of players."
I don't think there would be such an opposition to DRM if more thought went into end user solutions instead of making a haphazard system and claiming that piracy is killing the music industry when there's a "working" alternative. Aggravation is what pushes people to downlaod music for fre, not that it's "free". That may have been the reason in the mid to late 90s, but now people actually want to pay for music, but are hindered by complicated DRM.
The only exception to this is iTunes, but then you are locked into buying all Apple products (or trying to find other players that support AAC). While this may work for some people, what is a person like me, who doesn't want to by an iPod, supposed to do?
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shirizaki @ Nov 13th 2006 12:26PM
In all reality, the true purpose of FairUse4WM is really to allow you to use your purchased audio files on any media player. I don't hink that the first use of it was for piracy, much like the use of the iTunes DRM stripper wasn't just to pirate music.
If peopel REALLY wanted free music, they would go ahead and download it for free using any P2P program out there. The sole reason why i don't immerse myself in any DRM program is the fact that my use of the music may be hindered by very restrictive DRM. Buying my MP3's from a russian site that says "Pay me, here's a file, go all willy nilly" sounds better than "Pay me, here's a file that works on a certain amount of players."
I don't think there would be such an opposition to DRM if more thought went into end user solutions instead of making a haphazard system and claiming that piracy is killing the music industry when there's a "working" alternative. Aggravation is what pushes people to downlaod music for fre, not that it's "free". That may have been the reason in the mid to late 90s, but now people actually want to pay for music, but are hindered by complicated DRM.
The only exception to this is iTunes, but then you are locked into buying all Apple products (or trying to find other players that support AAC). While this may work for some people, what is a person like me, who doesn't want to by an iPod, supposed to do?