[GRLUG] I hate DRM

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The problem is that napster has two sorts of songs you can get.

You can download a song and play it for 30 days and then it expires. 
These can't be burned to CD but if you still want the song you can get 
another 30 days without interruption so long as you still subscribe to 
napster. I have napster and I fully, 100% support this use of DRM. This 
is what DRM was supposed to be. It's a good compromise: You pay very 
little money (an extra $5 a month) and can download as many tracks as 
you want to play on your computer and supporting MP3 players (yes, they 
are WMA drm protected files). Since you have NOT purchased these tracks 
you are limited as to what you can do. However, I have an IRiver T10 and 
it works great with this napster service!

The other way is to outright purchase a track. These can be burned to 
audio CD's. I'm not sure but they are probably also DRM'd WMA files. You 
get rid of it by burning just like with ITunes.

Mark Van Holstyn wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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