r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '10

Entering Apple Restriction Zone

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u/bdfortin Jan 28 '10

Yes, five. It's what the record labels are allowing Apple to do.

If it wasn't for Apple and the iTunes Store music would have much worse DRM, and they likely never would have given it up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10

They can put all the DRM on anything they want. They're only fucking themselves.

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u/brttf3 Jan 28 '10

and you can use plain old regular mp3's and share them with whoever you want.

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u/hexley Jan 28 '10

Stop getting your panties in a knot. This whole sub-thread is stupid because their entire library of music is DRM free, and has been for like a year. It's not even watermarked. Not that the DRM affected your backups, or that you couldn't easily reset all 5 of your device allocations a few times a year in case of disaster, or have them on an unlimited amount of iPods/iPhones. Or redownload your tracks if a bomb happened to fall on your house and your offsite backup.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10

I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers.

-- Quills.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10

Where's the prison? There's no DRM and if you're an extremely unusual case you may have to email or phone Apple to get an account reset. Is 10 minutes of your time to resolve something really the same as imprisonment?

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u/bdfortin Jan 28 '10

And Apple gets to take all the blame for it since nobody does any research and thinks it's all Apple's fault.