[mdlug] DRM

[Robert Adkins]

bob dion wrote:
> Robert Adkins wrote:
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>>     As that day approaches, people will start walking away from those 
>> products. How well is the Zune doing, compared to the "equally" as DRM'd 
>> music player known as the iPod? With the iPod you can rip your CD's into 
>> MP3s and actually share those ripped CD's with friends. You can't do 
>> that with the Zune. With the iPod, you can buy MP3s from various online 
>> sites. The Zune doesn't even work with all the music services that 
>> Microsoft is part of. (Play4Sure ring a bell?)
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> DRM is already effecting peoples fair use rights. My brother purchased a 
> couple songs from iTunes, he can Not copy them to his MP3 player. Not 
> that the format was different, but a Big DRM message came up and said 
> this was illegal.
    That's why I don't buy anything other than full, real, compliant CDs 
and then rip the songs to MP3 format myself. I want my fair use rights, 
not what some stuffy recording industry exec thinks they can get away with.

    When they stop selling real CDs. I'll stop buying music.

    Of course, my purchases alone are hardly even a drop in the bucket, 
let alone a gnat on the rear end of a horse. Maybe my example will "rub 
off" on others. Who knows?

    -Rob