funkstar;347364 Wrote: 
> Thats a good point Clive, although I think it's a little off the mark.
> The current range of players to include software to work with DRM'ed
> services, Rhapsody for example. It has also been said in forum posts
> and in a previous roadmap that the developers would do "whatever it
> takes" to get their players working with other subscription services
> and purchased online music.
It's probably the case that Slim Devices want to be pragmatic and let
their customers enjoy as much of their music as possible. So I suppose
if they had a cost-effective way to support Fairplay, they would do
it.

But perhaps the main point I was trying to make didn't come across.
What I was trying to get at is that if you build a device that supports
a DRM scheme, then you're assisting that scheme to become more
entrenched. Helping those of your customers who have bought DRM'd music
may be the "nice" thing to do in the short term, but looked at from the
long view it's counter-productive.


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