Apple strips iTunes of digital rights management


Business | 206667 hits | Jan 06 2:19 pm | Posted by: hurley_108
9 Comment

Apple is offering millions of songs free of copy protection on its iTunes digital music store, allowing the music to be played on any device.

Comments

  1. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:28 am
    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.

  2. by avatar CanadianJeff
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:39 am
    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.

  3. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:41 am
    "CanadianJeff" said
    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.

  4. by avatar CanadianJeff
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:43 am
    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.

  5. by avatar Scape
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:45 am
    Look up jailbreak.

  6. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:46 am
    "CanadianJeff" said
    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.

  7. by avatar hurley_108
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:56 pm
    "RUEZ" said
    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.

  8. by avatar hurley_108
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:01 pm
    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.

  9. by roger-roger
    Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:41 pm
    I saw this coming, I have never liked Apple Products, the player I have is a 8 gig SanDisk.



view comments in forum
You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news.

 Share  Digg It Bookmark to del.icio.us Share on Facebook


Share on Facebook Submit page to Reddit
CKA About |  Legal |  Advertise |  Sitemap |  Contact   canadian mobile newsMobile