At 07:55 AM 1/19/2004, you wrote:
quoted 7 lines Somebody said:>Somebody said:
>
> > The two reasons why I'll never buy anything from iTunes is
> > >that they use DRM
>
>Excuse my ignorance on this one, but would you please explain what
>DRM is? Yet *another* compression format???
It's "digital rights management." It's any form of file encoding
(compressed or not) that has some inherent limitations on what a user can
do with the file. Generally DRM for music files makes it so you can't
decode the file into something else, or open them up in a sound editor, or
whatever. Of course, they're all easily bypassed by simply burning the
audio to CD (something that's usually excluded from most DRM, as users
expect to be able to make backups).
Stuff like those CDs that can't be played in a computer are the same
thing. It's all pretty stupid, if you ask me. Make music consumers more
aware, make the industry less prick-full, and you'll convert more people to
not steal your music than archaic limitations and software.
derek
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