Apple strips iTunes of digital rights management
Newsbot @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:28 pm
Title: Apple strips iTunes of digital rights management
Category: Business
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2009-01-06 14:19:54
RUEZ @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:28 pm
It sounds good until you want to upgrade the music you already bought to the DRM free songs. Apple is charging .40 per song for music you already bought.
CanadianJeff @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:39 pm
Not to mention the ban on putting music from your ipod onto your computer. It doesn't matter if you own the cds. You still have to recopy all the music from your cds all over again.
I think my next mp3 player is not going to be any kind of pod.
RUEZ @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:41 pm
CanadianJeff CanadianJeff:
Not to mention the ban on putting music from your ipod onto your computer. It doesn't matter if you own the cds. You still have to recopy all the music from your cds all over again.
I think my next mp3 player is not going to be any kind of pod.
I think my next mp3 player is not going to be any kind of pod.
Well now that the DRM has been removed you should be able to move your songs anywhere you want.
CanadianJeff @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:43 pm
nope. Ipods are built so your computer or laptop will never recognize them as a harddrive. You can put all the songs you want ONTO your ipod but forget about getting them off the ipod.
Scape @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:45 pm
Look up jailbreak.
RUEZ @ Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:46 pm
CanadianJeff CanadianJeff:
nope. Ipods are built so your computer or laptop will never recognize them as a harddrive. You can put all the songs you want ONTO your ipod but forget about getting them off the ipod.
I can see my iPod. I can get all the DRM free songs off.
hurley_108 @ Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:56 am
RUEZ RUEZ:
It sounds good until you want to upgrade the music you already bought to the DRM free songs. Apple is charging .40 per song for music you already bought.
They could make you pay for it all again at full price, if they were real jerks.
hurley_108 @ Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:01 am
I just hope, with this being yet another step along the path towards the demise of DRM altogether, that Canada never enshrines DRM in law as legally unbreakable.
roger-roger @ Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:41 am
I saw this coming, I have never liked Apple Products, the player I have is a 8 gig SanDisk.