On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Art Alexion <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 09:02:53 Craig Froehle wrote: >> Haven't you heard, Art? Apple is going DRM-free. For the low, low >> price of $0.30 per track, they'll give you un-DRMed versions of all >> your music files. So that needn't be a concern. > > You are joking, right?
Nope: http://consumerist.com/5125362/apple-give-us-money-and-well-remove-drm-from-your-music?skyline=true&s=x >> But I don't know...I don't buy DRM-laden downloads, so I never have to >> worry about it. > > But a lot of people do, or used to before they learned the limitations. There > are (illegal in the US) apps that remove the DRM, but this is a concern with > streaming aac from an iTunes library. Actually, you can just burn the DRM tracks to CD, then rip that CD to get DRM-free tracks, but that's a lot of hassle. DRM sucks...it has burned so many people so many times that I just don't understand why people put up with it.
