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Regarding iTunes Music Store DRMRegarding iTunes Music Store DRMPosted Aug 30, 2007 15:29 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)Parent article: Ruminations on software freedom
While I'm not trying to advocate the use of iTunes Music Store or their DRM... can't an iTMS user burn their music to an audio CD and then rip it back into a non-DRM'ed format? I don't know if iTunes would be happy to rip it back but there are lots of other programs that just see an audio CD to rip.
There might be some lose in audio quality... and there might be some terms in their license agreements / service agreements that forbid that... but technically it is possible... so perhaps iTMS users won't lose their music if they stop using iTunes and/or an iPod. Of course, that requires extra work on the part of the user.
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Burn and rip Posted Sep 1, 2007 23:25 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] It is such a hassle that most people so burned (so to speak) will never buy DRM'd music again. Which is good.
Regarding iTunes Music Store DRM Posted Sep 3, 2007 22:16 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Yes, it's possible, but converting all your (purchased) music that way uses up physical resources (blank CD-Rs) and time, and most people just don't care enough to bother, exactly as Apple Marketing's customer research and UI design said they wouldn't.
Regarding iTunes Music Store DRM Posted Sep 7, 2007 11:06 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] The loss of audio quality is enough to stop people doing this - if you wanted to convert from Apple's AAC format to the more standard and DRM-free MP3, you would end up going through two sets of audio compression, making the quality significantly worse.
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