Digital Rights Management Stupidity - Page 2

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• 1 - Lono

  Jun 16, 2005 at 1:50 pm

  yeah, my post directly below this is about the very same issue. the geniuses at RCA have sold me an unusable Foo Fighters disc.
  
  somehow, they decided not to make their music compatible with iPods or iTunes. Brilliant move, as there are about 15 or 20 million iPods out there.
  
  it is rare I plunk down $20 for a CD, and now I know why. The record companies force me to go back to stealing music, because my legal copy won't function.

• 2 - Tarsanth

  Jun 16, 2005 at 2:10 pm

  Ultimatley they are never going to stop people copying, just piss em' off. Like many things I believe that this is another development in history that starts extremley lax, develops into a strict regime, then eventually will settle around a middle ground. No record or software company in their right mind would continue to produce cd's that couldn't easily be burnt to a computer at the rate it is going today. Microsofts next generation operating system is even more based around integrated media than the current one, thus creating a conflict not only between the customers and the copy-prevention companies, but between the corporate computer giants whose users can't use their software and the copy-protection companies.
  
  Ultimatley it is entirely impossible to stop someone copying a song without implementing a measure so that the song file doesn't open when you ask it to (now that would be well harsh, not even letting you listen to the music so you can't copy it). Anyone, myself included, with a marginally above average amount of computer sense can copy a music file simply by.........cancel that, wouldn't want any eyes from the copy protection business gaining yet another insight to try and snarl us all up with ;)

• 3 - Jupiter Moon

  Jun 19, 2005 at 12:29 pm

  Now I have a dilema: do I spend £15 and buy albums that I can't listen to on my in car MP3 player, my portable MP3 player or on my computer at work/home and possibly not even on my conventional CD player?
  
  Or shall I just go to LimeWire and download it of someone who has put an hour into getting round the copyprotection and be able to use it anywhere I like?
  
  Remember - copy protection is only supposed to act as a deterant - from buying the product!

• 4 - James

  Jul 31, 2005 at 3:47 pm

  I bought the new Foo Fighters album, along with the new Dave Mathews and Coldplay... hoping to burn to my iPod for a long flight I have this week... Goddamnit if the money whoring bastards of the record labels didn't take my money and spit in my face.
  
  Wake up you lowly worthelss suits - nobody buys portable CD players anymore. 20 MILLION ipods sold... and only music lovers would buy an ipod... were you f*ing drunk when you dreamed up the solution of rejecting ipod customers?
  
  Can someone spell out "class action" ?

• 5 - Tan The Man

  Jul 31, 2005 at 4:28 pm

  "and only music lovers would buy an ipod"
  
  How do you figure? Actually, true music lovers own vinyl because those things have way better quality than CDs and especially Mp3s.
  
  Even though I own an iPod, I tend to equate owning own to someone who loves being part of a trend than being a music lover.