[GRLUG] I hate DRM

[Mark Van Holstyn]

Do napster songs let you burn them to a cd? I know with Itunes protected
songs, I just burned them to a cd, then ripped that cd for protectedless
songs!

mark

On 9/11/06, zdennis <zdennis at mktec.com> wrote:
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> Ok... so my wife downloaded Napster the other week so she could download
> music to workout to. She downloaded some tunes and was
> ready to move them to her Sony mp3 player.
>
> All the files are wma, no problem, I'll just convert them to mp3. No can
> do though, none of the wma files will convert using any
> of the windows based tools. So I thought I'd give it a shot on my Kubuntu
> box. Nope, still won't work.
>
> I know it is illegal to discuss or share the idea of how-to convert a DRM
> based wma to a non-DRM based non-proprietary format, but
> this is absolutely ritarded. If you purchase music you should be able to
> play it wherever you want.
>
> I know I will be urging all of my family members to avoid Windows Media
> Player 10, Napster and any other DRM ingrained pieces of
> software out there.
>
> Meanwhile, my wife is very very upset. She's not a technical person and
> she was trying to do this on her own without bugging me.
> She has no idea what DRM is and she had no idea why things *wouldn't
> work*. She was just a confused and frustrated end user. I'm
> sure M$ just assumed that she'll go buy a new windows-based media player
> rather then reusing the mp3 player she already has. But I
> give M$ the bird on this one, and I will strongly advocate to those around
> me to not buy that crap.
>
> Zach
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Mark Van Holstyn
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