Comments on: Day Against DRM, 4 May 2010 http://www.news.software.coop/day-against-drm-4-may-2010/946/ What software.coop is doing and contemplating Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: foo http://www.news.software.coop/day-against-drm-4-may-2010/946/#comment-1527 foo Thu, 06 May 2010 01:51:53 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=946#comment-1527 Use a torrent client and thepiratebay.org. Use a torrent client and thepiratebay.org.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.news.software.coop/day-against-drm-4-may-2010/946/#comment-1526 Anonymous Wed, 05 May 2010 12:47:31 +0000 http://www.news.software.coop/?p=946#comment-1526 If you are 'rocking with the man', aka buying music via download, prefer Amazon to itunes as they are DRM free on Amazon. (And they offer their downloader for 64 bit Debian, not too bad...) If you have to buy from itunes, if you download AAC, then use itunes to immediately burn an audio CD, and then re-rip to a high bitrate MP3, (Artifacts from two encodings - yuck, oh well, you used itunes.) It will tag the MP3s and everything if you do it this way so you have effective un-DRMed the download. If you are ‘rocking with the man’, aka buying music via download, prefer Amazon to itunes as they are DRM free on Amazon. (And they offer their downloader for 64 bit Debian, not too bad…)

If you have to buy from itunes, if you download AAC, then use itunes to immediately burn an audio CD, and then re-rip to a high bitrate MP3, (Artifacts from two encodings – yuck, oh well, you used itunes.) It will tag the MP3s and everything if you do it this way so you have effective un-DRMed the download.

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