At Home with John and Debbie

The iTunes Music Store makes it very easy to browse and preview music for purchase. The prices are reasonable.

But, I won’t buy music from iTunes, nor from any of its similar competitors. The problem is the DRM. Apologists (pragmatists, even) point out that Apple gives you “generous” fair use rights, but the fact remains that iTunes DRM makes it awkward to do perfectly legitimate things you might want to do.

Not only that, but things you can do today, you may cease to be able to do tomorrow. Here is a case in point. One day, you can burn iTunes songs to CD using any old CD burning software. The next, you can only use iTunes’ built in, less flexible burning software.

Until downloads come with the same freedoms, I’ll buy CDs and rip them, thanks.

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