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Rob C



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The Darkness: WMA or AAC? Hmmm... new
      #14343 - 16/09/04 02:14 PM
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/16/darkness_digital_music_store/


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GlynB



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Re: The Darkness: WMA or AAC? Hmmm... new [Re: Rob C]
      #15090 - 17/09/04 01:22 PM
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"DRM-protected, each WMA song from the band's own store can be played on a single Windows PC, transferred up to three portable players or burned to CD three times."

Hmm, what kind of protection is that? Once it's on a CD unlimited illegal copying becomes possible anyway! Waste of time. Or am I missing something?


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Rob C



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Re: The Darkness: WMA or AAC? Hmmm... new [Re: GlynB]
      #15347 - 17/09/04 05:54 PM
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You couldn't rip the CDs to the same machine (and maybe the same OS), and you'd need to rip them to WAV or AIFF to avoid loss of quality, but otherwise you're right. Still DRM is pants anyway, it's just to placate the paranoid labels.


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Re: The Darkness: WMA or AAC? Hmmm... [Re: Rob C]
      #16746 - 20/09/04 01:26 PM
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Ha!
The flaw with any of these copy protection thingies is that as long as you can play the music you can record it anyway, by means of a line out to a recording device from the PC if necessary, with minimal quality loss. completely pointless.


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