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General Software Discussion / Re: A question about DRM
« on: July 13, 2007, 10:48 PM »Felix56 - congrats on your first post ...Carol is correct. DRM'ed audio files can be locked down very hard if the producers so decide. As of so far they seem to be a bit more leiient with audio then video.
There are three things to consider when burning CDs from DRMed files:
1) It may or may not be possible depending on the license issued (sometimes burning the track is excluded)
2) If you can burn there is usually a limit to the number of times you can burn it
3) If you burn to CD and then rip it back in MP3 format technically your are breaking the license in most cases, but also the process of encoding to CD and then recoding to rip it back reduces the quality of the audio file.
One fourth thing is that the post that started this thread was about a video file and most DRMed video cannot be burnt to a playable disc format.-Carol Haynes (July 11, 2007, 03:24 AM)
Video is always locked down harder that audio, they barely allow you to watch it.
as for the comment about the class action suit i am looking into just such a course of action. i will let ya'll know how that turns out. Iam a californian by the way, so we know where this is trying to fly.