| Scripting News: 5/6/2005 Dave has cancelled his subscription for Audible because the DRM is tied to both the iPod and PC he was using and both have now gone. This raises an issue I was aware of but I hadn't really considered properly. Let's say you use iTunes to buy and download lots of music for your iPod. All goes swimmingly for a year or so until your iPod dies, or is lost, or the dog ate it. Around that time Creative (or Archos or iRiver) introduce a new machine that is a must have alternative that blows the iPod out of the water. Just one catch, it doesn't play iTunes encrypted AAC. What are you going to do? Music is for life, not just for christmas. I've still got LPs, and even occasionally listen to them, that I bought more than 30 years ago. Can you be sure that whatever DRM scheme you buy into will still work in 30 years? The plain old CD and the MP3 might well still be around. But I can pretty much guarantee that iTMS encrypted AAC won't be. Just Say No To DRM. |
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