Many people don't want the sound quality loss caused by recompressing already compressed source material. If you have some means for stripping DRM without quality loss, then the DRM is serving no purpose anyway, so they should just remove it and save everyone a lot of trouble (and them a lot of money, and perhaps even us if they by some miracle were to pass the savings onto the consumer.)
Still don't see the problem with it. I haven't used a CD in about 3 months now. If you use your PMP for music playing, then DRM should have zero affect on you.
My boss used to act like DRM was no big deal either. A few weeks later he came to me and asked how he could put an audio file he bought off I-tunes on both his Ipod and his son's at the same time without rebuying the track.
I proceeded to show him how to 'easily get rid' (as Jon says) of Apple's DRM. He said that would be way too big a pain in the ass to do on the hundreds of files he already paid for.
Wow, an honest consumer who spent hundreds on music was being help up by DRM... who would have guessed?
It is a hassle to call Apple every time I change my computer or ipod just because I change them often. Others are not as nice and I will have to repurchase my digital tracks because I lost the password to some digital certificate file.... and music than only works in one software player is even worse.
DRM is a problem. Sony non-drm'ed tracks are welcome!
It's easy to get music from one iPod to another without stripping the DRM. All you need to do is authorize the tracks on another machine. You can legally authorize purchased tracks on up to 5 different machines--more than enough for most purposes. Copy the files into the other machine's iTunes library, authorize the copied tracks by attempting to play them and then entering the username/password they were purchased with and then sync the second iPod to that library.
I hate DRM as much as everyone else but Apple has one of the more reasonable schemes I have seen if you don't mind being locked into iTunes and an iPod.
My preference is to purchase unprotected AAC tracks but my wife and I share protected tracks this way all the time with no problems.
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I don't understand the big deal about DRM. It hasn't bothered me at all. You can easily get rid of the Apple DRM.
Many people don't want the sound quality loss caused by recompressing already compressed source material. If you have some means for stripping DRM without quality loss, then the DRM is serving no purpose anyway, so they should just remove it and save everyone a lot of trouble (and them a lot of money, and perhaps even us if they by some miracle were to pass the savings onto the consumer.)
Still don't see the problem with it. I haven't used a CD in about 3 months now. If you use your PMP for music playing, then DRM should have zero affect on you.
As long as you hold your hands in front and dont move too much, handcuffs should have no effect on you.
My boss used to act like DRM was no big deal either. A few weeks later he came to me and asked how he could put an audio file he bought off I-tunes on both his Ipod and his son's at the same time without rebuying the track.
I proceeded to show him how to 'easily get rid' (as Jon says) of Apple's DRM. He said that would be way too big a pain in the ass to do on the hundreds of files he already paid for.
Wow, an honest consumer who spent hundreds on music was being help up by DRM... who would have guessed?
Well I guess when you put it that way it would be a pain.
isn't copying a legally purchased music track, stealing?
It is a hassle to call Apple every time I change my computer or ipod just because I change them often. Others are not as nice and I will have to repurchase my digital tracks because I lost the password to some digital certificate file.... and music than only works in one software player is even worse.
DRM is a problem. Sony non-drm'ed tracks are welcome!
@shanoboy--
It's easy to get music from one iPod to another without stripping the DRM. All you need to do is authorize the tracks on another machine. You can legally authorize purchased tracks on up to 5 different machines--more than enough for most purposes. Copy the files into the other machine's iTunes library, authorize the copied tracks by attempting to play them and then entering the username/password they were purchased with and then sync the second iPod to that library.
I hate DRM as much as everyone else but Apple has one of the more reasonable schemes I have seen if you don't mind being locked into iTunes and an iPod.
My preference is to purchase unprotected AAC tracks but my wife and I share protected tracks this way all the time with no problems.
So I guess DRM does suck. I get Rhapsody and don't bother buying tracks, so it's never bothered me before.