[mythtv-users] The death blow to DRM has arrived
William
william_munson at comcast.net
Wed Jan 7 11:15:58 UTC 2009
Josh wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, "Matt Emmott" <memmott at gmail.com
> <mailto:memmott at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joe Borne <joe.borne at gmail.com
>> <mailto: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%.
>>
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> Will there be a way to remove DRM from existing iTunes files?
One way would be to visit the Pi*****Bay site and use P2P. Not that I am
suggesting anything improper but you bought the rights to listen to that
song and in my non lawyer mind a song file is a song file.
Warning!!! - Downloading free songs can be addictive and may be illegal
in your area!!
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