[Newsbot]

Title: Apple strips iTunes of digital rights management
Category: Business
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2009-01-06 14:19:54

[RUEZ]

It sounds good until you want to upgrade the music you already bought to the DRM free songs. Apple is charging .40 per song for music you already bought.

[CanadianJeff]

Not to mention the ban on putting music from your ipod onto your computer. It doesn't matter if you own the cds. You still have to recopy all the music from your cds all over again.

I think my next mp3 player is not going to be any kind of pod.

[RUEZ]

CanadianJeff CanadianJeff:

Not to mention the ban on putting music from your ipod onto your computer. It doesn't matter if you own the cds. You still have to recopy all the music from your cds all over again.

I think my next mp3 player is not going to be any kind of pod.

Well now that the DRM has been removed you should be able to move your songs anywhere you want.

[CanadianJeff]

nope. Ipods are built so your computer or laptop will never recognize them as a harddrive. You can put all the songs you want ONTO your ipod but forget about getting them off the ipod.

[Scape]

Look up jailbreak.

[RUEZ]

CanadianJeff CanadianJeff:

nope. Ipods are built so your computer or laptop will never recognize them as a harddrive. You can put all the songs you want ONTO your ipod but forget about getting them off the ipod.

I can see my iPod. I can get all the DRM free songs off.

[hurley_108]

RUEZ RUEZ:

It sounds good until you want to upgrade the music you already bought to the DRM free songs. Apple is charging .40 per song for music you already bought.

They could make you pay for it all again at full price, if they were real jerks.

[hurley_108]

I just hope, with this being yet another step along the path towards the demise of DRM altogether, that Canada never enshrines DRM in law as legally unbreakable.

[roger-roger]

I saw this coming, I have never liked Apple Products, the player I have is a 8 gig SanDisk.