[mdlug] DRM

[Mike]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>
>> From: bob dion
>
>> 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.
>
>  The nice thing about Linux is that you can do almost any conversion with
> a bit of work. I like movie soundtracks, and as a promotion for "Superman
> Returns" they offered the entire soundtrack for streaming download. Of
> course, they tried to arrange things so you couldn't save it.
>
>  A little bit of "View Source" and I found the actual file, and dowloaded
> it. ASF, eh? A quick script w/Mplayer, a little chopping with Audacity,
> and I had the three clips I wanted out of it.
>
>  I've also whipped up scripts to convert movies and DVDs to .avi files for
> my Treo 650. (Don't use that much, but it's fun to play with.)
>
>  About the only conversion that had me stumped was converting mp3s *to*
> wmas for my nephew's phone. Looks like you gotta have Windows for that
> one.
> Fortunately I've picked hardware that's easier to work with.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                            (313) 227-2317
>

You don't want to convert from lossy format to another lossy format,
things will get dirty.  Even my non-nazi (anti-audiophile) ears can't
handle lossy to lossy formatting.

Mike