John Walker Live

Blogging from Hoboken, NJ...or wherever I happen to be connected from ;)

Search

Flickr Photos

www.flickr.com

This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from John Walker. Make your own badge here.

DRM Lock-in

In my last post, I talked about how Apple now allows users who've lost their purchased music to re-download it from iTunes. Very nice, indeed, but at the end of the day, you're still locked into using an iPod. What if you wanted to switch to a different device maker for your next player? Well, you wouldn't be able to bring your music over to the new device.

Dare Obasanjo has an interesting post today along the same lines. He's decided to forgo the online music sites and will be purchasing CD's instead. I agree completely and that's been my choice now for a while.

In addition to the above-mentioned reasons, DRM has all kinds of other repercussions. For example, I love using Microsoft PhotoStory 3 to create slide-shows with background tunes. Go ahead and download that for free. It's great.

Anyway, since a lot of my music has been purchased from Napster, MSN Music, and other sites, I was bummed when I tried to include some of it in a photo story for my new baby and was told that because of DRM I couldn't. What? I mean, really I'm just showing this stuff to my wife and the baby's grandparents. I paid good money for those tunes too, shouldn't I be able to use it? So the answer truly is to keep buying CD's and then rip away.

Tags DRM iPod iTunes MP3 Players Music Napster

posted by John Walker @ 9/19/2006 4:19:00 PM

Comments

Name
Email
Blog Url
Comment
Remember me

John Walker Live

Search

Recent Posts

Flickr Photos

DRM Lock-in

Comments