On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:34:29PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: | I don't know how Debian would react to it but I think it would be USEFUL to | have the option. It would be one less reason to have to maintain MS Windows | on my system. I have bought two books that I can only view from Acrobat | Reader on a Windows system. | The worst problem I have had is with music, | however, with music I have purchased from Real Networks. There are workarounds for music. I recently signed up with iTunes (their MP4/AAC seems better than Wal-Mart's WMA) so I could buy some music at a reasonable price. That's when I discovered iTunes' DRM problem too. I have heard, though, that iTunes allows burning a DRM-encumbered AAC file to an audio CD which can then be ripped quite naturally. I also came across JHymn - a program to decrypt the file so mplayer can play the music. (note: I'm not advocating stealing, just fair-use of the rightfully purchased music) | My Windows | partition broke when I installed Debian over Xandros and that likely means | that I will lose the tunes I have purchased. | The new MP3Tunes is a better | alternative to RN for me, you buy the music once and it is always yours. We | will have to wait and see whether more artists make music available on | MP3Tunes, which does not use DRM. I'll have to take a look at this. I hadn't heard of this venue before. -D -- Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you -- for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others. Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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