I’m a huge fan of the Dave Matthews Band. I have 19 of their albums - all of which I purchased. I have the same song in like 10 different forms but since they are such a great live band, I want all ten versions.
BMG - the DMB publisher - has decided to join the trend of copy protecting audio cd’s. As a Mac user, I can mostly just ignore this because they never can get it to work. So I have bought Stand Up and the Foo Fighter’s new CD and both ripped like normal on my G5.
Tonight I go to the DMB site to look at album #20 - another live album from 1996. I happen to look at the site for the new studio album (which by the way is not their best effort). On the page is a note about getting the new disc onto you iPod.
Clicking the link brings up a short note on how to get the tracks onto your iPod. Here are the instructions:
1. Use a mac and just do it like normal
- or -
1. Launch some app embedded on the cd
2. Chose the copy protected songs so that DRM’d WMA files are copied to your computer
3. Burn a new cd from the WMA’s
4. Rip the new cd in iTunes to load on your iPod
And here is the real kicker:
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
OK - so let me get this straight. I need to blame Apple for not working with Microsoft’s proprietary DRM files and I should blame Apple for putting copy protection on the cd in the first place! This paragraph just shows how stupid the music industry is. They just told you how to break their own copy protection in the previous paragraph so why was it there again?
I’m tired of the music/tv/movie industry treating me like I’m a criminal. They continually make it far too hard to use devices that would bring more enjoyment to the content they produce. They aren’t protecting their markets. They are alienating people like me that have paid for things in the past. Instead, I’ll just forget about buying their content. It’s not like it is any good.
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