RE: [OT] iTunes DRM

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't agree with DRM, then don't use iTunes.
Try these instead
www.allofmp3.com




-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Paul Gordon
Sent: 28 April 2005 18:38
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] iTunes DRM


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



SWMBO has an ITMS account, and we have both used it to purchase a number of
songs, (no point in having 2 accounts), all of which are obviously
protected
by DRM.



These are all MPEG4 files, with .MP4 extensions. As far as I can tell,
iTunes seems to be the only player that can play them.



iTunes will not let these protected files be converted to AAC (well, not by
iTunes, anyway).



My iRiver player won't play them.



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..



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.



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!



Rant over.



Paul G.





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