By Jo Best
Published: Friday 02 September 2005
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Name
Anonymous
Location
Rossendale
Occupation
it sales
Comment
It may be time consuming but more and more people are working round DRM to stop incompatability issues. On most WMA downloads simply burning a legitimate CD copy and then ripping that back as an MP3 file unlocks the DRM and means whilst the DRM WMA version is restricted your MP3 version is not. I want to buy legal music but whilst my WMA downloads have to be converted to MP3 to play on my Ipod what choice do I have? The music industry needs to step in and work with the technology companies to come up with fully compatible and legal alternative so that those who want to support a legal music industry can.
According to some of the reports I've read, "break...
Dennis McDonald
It may be time consuming but more and more people ...
Anonymous
And who's fault is it for having DRM in the first ...
John Horvatic
The real culprit here is the greediness of the rec...
Anonymous
Wrong blame. Record companies require DRM for the...
Anonymous
I am with Anonymous on this, the whole area is a c...
Simon
I also buy CD's (over 1600 at last count) and rip ...
David Howe
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