Re: (possibly OT) DRM (opin ion from the NY Times)

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 05:42:03 -0600, "S.Lewis"
<Gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Tony Harding" <ToHard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47a83901$0$15179$607ed4bc@xxxxxxxxx
February 4th,
2008
8:17 pm

The ?idea of listening to any kind of music ever recorded? is great but
not with DRM, which to me is a great injustice and not worth my money
under any circumstances. I used Rhapsody?s music service at Best Buy and
it crashed many times, so it is buggy as well as Yahoo?s was. The idea of
low quality compressed files being billed as equal to CD sound quality,
which is digitally impossible, is a big turnoff and a lie. Paying top
dollar to have what you bought and should rightfully own, still subject to
someone else?s restrictions, means that not only am I paying for less
sound quality, but I pay for someone else to still have control over what
I bought. Apparently the music industry thinks it should share ownership
of your music files even after you purchased them, through their wonderful
DRM scheme. If the music industry wants to keep their music that badly
then, well, they can keep it for themselves then, as I will gladly do with
my money. DRM itself is a threat to consumer freedom and represents the
will of corrupt people. I will not support it by subscribing to Rhapsody
or any other DRM based subscription service. However, a music subscription
service that is reasonably priced, offers a good two year for the price of
one deal, allows me to burn true wav quality CD?s as many times as I want,
allows me to download mp3s to my computer whether Pc or Mac or to any
portable music device, and of course, offers a choice from all the music
ever made, would garner my interest, and if it was DRM-free, my money.

? Posted by Louienyc75

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/two-views-of-digital-music-subscriptions/index.html?ref=technology#comment-96257




Amazon.com is now offering at least some downloads as DRM-free:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003




I thought I saw some software a while back that was supposed to remove
DRM but I don't know if it works nor if it affects the quality of the
sound and if it's legal (no experience with this type software).
.

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