| What the Heck is DRM? And how do I get my music... The right way. |
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| By Cody Heitschmidt | ||||||
| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 | ||||||
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If you have an iPod and love iTunes this article is not for you... Click here and tell us why you don't listen to your iPod on RCAT? DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, click here if you want to read a bunch about it. All you really need to know is if you buy music downloads that are not DRM free you face the possibility of there being restrictions that keep you from, either leagally or physically doing anything you want with the song(s). So - nutsheel - if the music is not DRM Free, you own it, with restrictions. For instance if you own an ipod and have gotten songs from itunes and tried to load them on another device such as your phone.. you may have had problems. This is because Apple encases all songs purchased from itunes in a DRM to protect the usage of the song. Ok I don't want to get into the legalities or morals of it cause it's kinda a sticky situation... I have found an alternative that I am not sure why everyone isn't using. Amazonmp3 
is the ultimate solution!!!! All the music is DRM free, it's incredibly
easy to use it incorporates with the music handler on your computer and
then you can do anything you want with the music you purchase. Go to Amazonmp3 ,
sign-up for an account, download the very simple and safe software
download you need and see what you think. Most songs are $.89, some are
$.99 . You can get whole albums for as little as $4.99 and you can take
that single copy of the music file and put it on any number of devices
you want. Go try it out and come back and tell why I am wrong that it
the fastest, simplest of most friendly way to get music that you can
put on multiple devices. Obviously if you are just stealing it off limewire or some other file sharing site, this is a worthless point. But if you want cheap, legal, restriction free music check it out. I honestly am looking for a decent reason/discussion why we aren't all using amazonmp3.com so let me know!! Didn't your momma teach you to share? Share us.   
  
1. 08-04-2008 11:21 Agreed, great tip Cody. I found a few complete album downloads in the .89 and .99 cent range that my kids would love! If only they were old enough to truly appreciate the technological marvel of the MP3 compression codec.. ;) 2. 08-06-2008 01:49 I hate DRM, so I prefer crack it, I\'m using a software called Daniusoft Music Converter to help me. http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/digital-music-converter.html 3. 08-06-2008 12:26 Thanks for the info. I hate DRM, too - not because I'm trying to steal content - because it makes it really inconvenient to use content - some of which is available for free. Many of us are using more than one computer, files downloaded through overdrive won't play on my zune, yadda yadda yadda. Getting rid of DRM would simplify my life and it's worth investing $30 in it to rid myself of the problem. 4. 08-06-2008 19:39 I think I'm the only person I know in real life who still hunts down CD's and buys them, complete with liner notes. It's getting harder and harder to do so since online sales of music now account for over 40% of all music sold. But there's something about having an actual CD that speaks to me. I'm still the person with the Bose rather than an MP3 player. I want the music to exist in time and space rather than in my ears. I know, I know ....I'm behind the times. I likely always will be. The perk is that as CD's become harder to find, the search becomes a treasure hunt and I find myself on artist's websites ordering their music directly from them more and more. Often that comes with the bonus of having the CD arrive autographed. Music is such a personal thing, it's a good feeling to have the circles of distribution become smaller. To have more and more artists embrace technology so that they don't have to sell megacopies to be considered to be carried in megastores. If they only sell 100K and keep the majority of the profit they are still much better off than they'd be working to sell their music at Walmart or Best Buy and needing to sell half a million to come close to making the same profit. I guess it's my version of going local for music even though I know the whole debate of it's better for the environment to download rather than buy hard copies. Write Comment
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