The way I look at all of this is that if you buy something, you buy it for what it is and accept it for what it is. If you are not hip to DRM, get your stuff from the library or some source that doesn't do this. If you decide to obtain your stuff illegally or manipulate your property by removing copyright protection, that is your personal choice and these are all choices we have to make, but it's kind of lame to ask people to help you to do this. I'm not suggesting that Kelly is asking for help since she is just unsure of what options she has, but I've seen this kind of thing happen on message boards and such.
It's even more lame to complain about the product being protected in the first place after buying it, as it should be up to us to research what we are buying ahead of time (and up to the vendor to make this clear too). Perhaps iTunes should have a refund policy, but I'm not sure how they could facilitate deleting files from iTunes libraries (nor do I think that they should, in this case).
In the case of Kelly, she said she wanted to play NetLibrary audio books (probably Windows Media protected) on her iPod, but then shared with you a URL about how to convert protected iTunes m4p files into mp3s. If iTunes won't play the file, it isn't protected by iTunes DRM.
Steven Black wrote:
Removing copyright protection is a criminal act. It is a violation of the DMCA. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA |It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or |services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to |copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of |circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of |copyright itself. In addition to violating US law, it likely also violates the license agreements with those services. If you want free audiobooks, I recommend http://librivox.org/ Cheers, Steven Black On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:18 -0400, Jeff Welty wrote:I'm forwarding this since I don't have much experience with media files such as the ones my friend is mentioning. I turned her on to Unix stuff a few semesters ago so she is willing to try any techniques on Linux. I'll relay any suggestions to her. Thanx, Jeff email message attachment (protected files)-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Polacek, Kelly Myer <kpolacek@indiana.edu> To: jtwelty@imap.iu.edu Subject: protected files Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:45:29 -0400_______________________________________________ BLUG mailing list BLUG@linuxfan.com http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
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