Sony's new DRM

[blessingx]

See here .

All DRM is immoral IMO, but this may be another step (like iTMS) that's at least a little freer.

 

[Sledge]

I don't know if DRM is immoral but it certainly is stupid to annoy your customers by making it difficult to rip their CDs.

 

[gshan]

Quote:

Sony BMG will send them an email with a "back door" measure on how to work around the copy protection.

= hold down left-shift? heh. useless! the cds will be ripped one way or another.

 

[LFC_SL]

only 3 copies on a PC, not compatible with iPods (without help from BMG anyway), and DRM doesn't affect Mac users. words fail me so:

 

[vranswer]

Please forgive my stupidity here, but even in iTunes (or using EAC, or CDeX) I can rip a CD and import it into the program as a wave file (or aiff if you like). I then change the import utility to 'use Apple Lossless' and convert all the files to ALAC - all of this done within iTunes. I thought wav was not DRM compliant, meaning once I take the initial step and import as wav all copy protection is gone. Is this not accurate?