RE: [OT] iTunes DRM

["Steve Morgan" <smorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Simple problem, simple question, - bet there's not such a
> simple answer though.

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> The best I have been able to do is to authorise my desktop PC
> on her ITMS account, since up to 5 are allowed this has at
> least enabled me to play them on my desktop machine, but this
> procedure has just highlighted one problem..
> I can't find a way to DE-authorise PC's from anywhere other
> than the PC itself. - which is great since we bought SWMBO a
> new PC last weekend, - her new one has been authorised on her
> account and that's fine, but her old PC (subsequently wiped &
> rebuilt) wasn't deauthorised before it was decommissioned. so
> that is now using up and wasting one of the available licenses..

I've read details specifically on how to de-authorise a PC that has been
wiped.

Search the iTunes help and the web site - I'm sure you'll find
instructions.

> This whole DRM thing is a ***ing joke, - if we went to HMV &
> just bought the damn CD-singles, I wouldn't have any problems
> listening to OUR music which WE have paid for with OUR money,
> on any playback device of our choosing, at any time and place.

You pay for a license to listen to the music, subject to the terms of that
license.

> Does anyone know any software which can give me back my fair
> use rights? - I just want to listen to my damn music when and
> where I want to.. After all, we have paid for it!

Buying music from a site which only supports proprietary hardware and then
trying to listen to it on unsupported hardware is hardly unreasonable,
though, is it?

Steve