[mythtv-users] The death blow to DRM has arrived

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Jan 6 23:00:57 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 06 January 2009 15:54:59 Josh wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, "Matt Emmott" <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joe Borne <joe.borne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For those of you lame enough to have followed my rants and ravings
> > on here about the RIAA and DRM/5C/CCI, you might remember that I
> > predicted iTunes would go 100% DRM free by the end of 2008. Looks
> > like I was 6 days off.
> >
> > http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-
> > keynote/
> >
> > This is incredibly important because it signals the beginning of the
> > end for DRM. Look for all the other online music stores to follow
> > suit. I bet they all drop DRM by July. 5C and CCI are next!
> >
> > I saw that Apple was saying that they'd have 8 million DRM-free
> > songs today and 10 million total at a later date. I don't think
> > that's all of their music, or am I mistaken? Still a step in the
> > right direction but I don't think I'd call it 100%.

> Will there be a way to remove DRM from existing iTunes files?

That's the big question. I certainly don't want to have to re-purchase 
anything Ihave bought from iTunes in the past.

Though maybe it means we won't have to worry so much about using some of 
the "unapproved" methods out there for removing the DRM.


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