RE: [ukha_d] iTunes protected content as only source

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Your comments made me smile .. Lol :)

When I read back what I'd written I think it sounds a bit bolshy and not
at all
how it sounded in my head as I was writing it :)

Still my point is that DRM is a pain for the "legitimate" user
and does
nothing to
stop the real pirates or people copying CD's. Like most things its the
people who
play by the rules that end up loosing out and the people that break the
rules find
a way around it anyway.

So , for me at least, DRM is not something I want anything to do with
and the best
way of doing that is just buy the CD in the first place.

I guess I'm just the sort of person that likes to walk a different road.
If its popular or
the mainstream I tend not to like it as much as something that's unusual
or different.
Probably the reason why I'm on this group <grin> or the reason I take
stereoscopic
photographs rather than "normal" 2D ones.  This is probably part
of the
reason I
have a "dislike" of the I-Pod.. its a designer label music player
and
everyone wants
one  :) I do find myself pondering why I am sat here writing this email
on  a PC running
Windows rather than on a Mac or Linux.. but I guess I'm full of
contradictions :)

Marcus

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Noble
Sent: 10 July 2006 16:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] iTunes protected content as only source



Marcus Warrington wrote:
> Why would I use I-tunes to encode, when I can use
ExactAudioCopy ?

I don't believe I said you should.

> I really don't buy into this I-Pod , I-Tunes stuff, just give
me a rea MP3 player that
> I could just drag files onto without having to have software
loaded on the PC.
>

Well, if you do find someone giving away MP3 players, do let us
know :-)

>>> If you upgrade,
>>> you just disable playback on the old one and enable it on
the new
>>> one.
>>>
> I think that was the problem, he couldn't disable the playback
on the
> "old" machine because
> it didn't exist anymore... the hard disc and motherboard had
gone
> t*ts-up.com.
>

You can de-authorise all of your machines, and re-authorise the
working
ones, if a machine dies. You can only do this once a year mind,
but one
would hope not to experience more than one catastrophic failure
per
year... ;-)

> To be fair it wasn't I-Tunes stuff he lost but Windows DRM
based
> MP3's.. and I believe he did get them back from a backup but
it used up one of his lives.
>

Glad to hear it. Sounds like he should have read the terms and
condition
of the backup software before purchase though - the recovery
costs
seems a little excessive ;-)

Jim







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