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Not very good, MSN Music servers are staying on for another 3 years.

I know another way to do it without burning it to CD

If this, and the MSN case isn't enough to prove why DRM is more harm then good then I'm not sure what will. I can see why in some cases it's a good idea, like with the Napster subscription model, but if I buy a track, I buy it!

And decisions like these are the reason Yahoo is struggling as much as it is. When will these idiots get it through their moronic skulls already that this does NOT slow music piracy. All it does is inconvenience the honest people. F*ck Yahoo and everyone else that still promotes anti-piracy measures! People that pay money should have to deal with the crap of DRM.

I hate buying a track that has limitations. Ridiculous. If I buy it I should be able to do what I want and please with it.

I dont think it gets any worse than buying something and not having it for yourself. Music retailers need to realize DRM is bad for them.

Oh well, at least sales of blank CDs and DVDs will rise.

He's a knock-off Nigel a knock-off Nigel. Knock-off Nigel doesn't have to bother with the inconvenience that legitimate customers have to go through because executives are idiots because he downloads knock-off songs.

Do 128 kbps songs loose a little quality each time you burn and re-rip them from CD?

I believe cracks and workarounds for removing DRM from these songs already exist, so why don't they just release their own version of those programs to legitimately remove a DRM format they are no longer supporting? A burn to CD and re-rip method loses quality, even if it is a pretty small amount.

Another good reason not to buy DRm infested garbage.

How has this affected pirates? Not one iota - they paid nothing, got a decent bitrate and it will work until they wipe it.

How has this affected legitimate customers. Plenty - they probably paid over the top, got low bitrates and now have to transcode everything to continue working properly.

Is there any point in being honest? Doesn't appear so.

witht that crappy quality?. that would be a waste of a CD.
No thanks

This is another reason why people don't pay for music.

I think a lot of people missed the talking point of the story:



So, let's say you decide to buy a new computer for Christmas. You pull out your optical discs, reload the DRM music to this new machine and...is there an authentication server that will approve the playback of these files? No.

You've wasted money on optical discs, and wasted your time burning the useless data to them.

Asking for a refund may not accomplish anything more than "backing up" your music will accomplish, but the odds are better for getting the refund than being able to listen to music you paid for.

I haven't tried this myself, but I was thinking you could do this to save some cds and some time.

Make a audio image (.iso, .img) and just use a virtual cd drive emulator such as daemon tools to rip the audio tracks.

I think some of you may understand what I'm saying and would like to comment, please do.

I remember year ago when all the DRM came out, all the big companies said there would always be a way to authorise, Im glad I never trusted it. Ive got quite a bit of music on iTunes, does make me think now.

Owned, this is what happens if you buy music online!

Every time I see something like this, I think about how smart amazon is, and wonder why people aren't more supportive of the "right way" to do digital purchases...

Owned!

Man, all this DRM **** makes me sick.

The music recording industry as fronted by the RIAA teaches you over and over again to be a good little crook. First thing, if you buy digital file format only, always immediately crack the DRM and archive it in a usable format so that you actually can own the rights to play the music. If you do not do that, loss of key servers when someone throws in the dishtowel means that your digital collection is worthless. If you buy DRM'd CD's, figure out how to bypass the DRM. Otherwise your computer gets infected with betaware that phones home and usually cripples your computer in some way that causes unstable operation.

Buy non-RIAA CD's if at all possible. Support artists that have the cojones to either be their own label or sign onto labels that understand we want to buy a CD to play in our computer, pull tracks for our MP3 player or play on our stereo. The CD is only a container, the file used to download is only a container. If you want us to buy, don't add bohunkus garbage to the container.

I'm still buying CD's as that's the most useful method of archiving music at this time, just not anything RIAA endorsed or contaminated. $120 worth last month that went directly to the artists producing the music.

Any DRMed tracks I burn onto CD and rip them to high quality Non DRM mp3 anyway.

Not just for this reason but the fact if I like my music without silly crap like this.

Meh. The last few CDs I have listened to (with the exception of Sam Sparrow's new album) I obtained through means other than buying it. Turns out those albums were **** anyway, so very pleased that I didn't waste my cash.