October 16th, 2006

DRM is killing music

My wife has a licence from British Dressage to put together CDs for her dressage to music tests. British Dressage pay Phonographic Performance Limited a small fortune each year to grant their members this privilege.

But DRM doesn’t respect our rights to take tracks that we have paid for, and that we have a licence to use. Can we burn a CD for the venue? Not without some technical jiggery pokery that probably breaks all kind of digital laws.

As it was the solution was trivial, brute force, and will always work no matter how clever their DRM becomes. I’m not the only one pissed off right now with having DRM forced on me.

I can’t say I was bothered before, but if companies will put barriers into the way of fair use of music we have paid for then fuck ‘em.

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Buy anything new? Not until I’ve ripped 12 feet of vinyl shelfspace into high quality lossless audio. I’ll be spending the money I save not buying talentless shite - the real reason sales are down - on a bigger hard disc.

Remember kids, vinyl can’t carry DRM.

Posted by Nick on Monday, October 16th, 2006 at 12:00 am | Filed under stuff, ot
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  1. 32sixteen » Blog Archive » Shafted by the iPod Says:
    December 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm

    […] Apropos of my claims that vinyl can’t carry DRM the fucktards at Apple have shafted me up the arse. […]

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