According to DMCA (which is not international law), breaking DRM is actually illegal.
-Josh On 3/22/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will you buy a cd burner for every iTunes customer? Will you reimburse > every iTunes customer for the cost of all the cds they have to buy? Will > you reimburse them for the time spent ripping and re-encoding the songs? > Most countries in Western Europe have national agencies (European > equivalents to BMI/ASCAP) collect a levy on all blank cds - a so-called > blank media tax which goes to artists to compensate for the loss of > copying. As a result blank cds are not just something you buy and > throw-away at will (unless you live somewhere where the levy is really > small). > > I may be able to rip and re-encode songs bought via iTunes, but I > shouldn't have to, damnit. > > - Andreas (who still only buys regular cds) > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:54:45 +0100, Kunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it just me? I don't quite get what France is trying to do. You can > > burn songs you download from the iTunes Store to a CD and then rip > > for any player. So why are they claiming that Apple's Store and the > > iPod are a closed system? This seems like mostly a technological > > ignorance than a real "argument". Even NBC reported this morning that > > songs you buy at the iTunes Store "can only be played on an iPod" > > which is simply not the truth. What's up with this journalistic/ > > legislative failure to understand and report/legislate based on the > > facts? > > > > If France outlaws the iTunes Store, it will also hurt us if Apple > > doesn't separate all the free podcasts from what they have for sale > > that is mis-perceived as only playable on iPods. > > > > > > -- > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
