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The presumption that I am a criminal, after I shelled out my money to buy the CD, is galling.
With official audio downloads and even CDs and high-rez audio now encumbered with DRM (digital rights management) technology, it would appear we are at the dawn of the restricted music format age. Is this a problem for you, or just another bump in the audio road?
If it uses DRM I know it will give me a lot of problems playing it on all my devices so I simply avoid buying it. By error I once bought a music disc (No one makes CD's any more) with so-called "copy protection", I had yo make a copy in order to play it. I had no problems making a copy and playing the copy, but the original simply would not play. Why can't the industry stop harrasing those who want to pay for the product?
DRM is a dead on arrival deal ith me. DRM means (a) I will not use buy it and (b) I will search the internet for the cracking software that surely will follow any DRM. Just make the software cheap enough and stop spending money on phyrric crusades that do nothing but bug the buying public. Enough!