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• Please, dont give his false sense of "i hate drm" any publicity. He wants his fans to petition Apple to include WMA DRM, instead of not having it at all. He wants more.

  Posted by: jonmaddox on August 16, 2005 at 6:15 PM

• i think it's pretty sad, that's why i posted how to really get rid of the drm alltogether.

  Posted by: philliptorrone on August 16, 2005 at 6:19 PM

• Wow, that's really pretty despicable. Non-DRMed CDs work just great with iTunes. Most CDs work just great with iTunes on MacOS. Seems like Apple is doing just fine, and Dave backed the wrong horse.

  What a chump.

  Posted by: Moofie on August 16, 2005 at 6:54 PM

• the company that makes the drm tried to sue a student for publishing the "hold the shift key" hack too.

  Posted by: philliptorrone on August 16, 2005 at 6:59 PM

• If this wasn't so sad it would be funny. An Artist explaining to his customers how to bypass the DRM on their CDs by copying the embedded WMAs to their PC, downloading a license which then allows them to burn an audio CD copy of the original (modulo two lossy compression steps) so that they can then rip the CD to unencrypted MP3s to finally copy them to an iPod. And noting that the CD copy protection doesn't work on Macs so that a Mac can rip the original CD directly. And finally topping it off with a request to petition Apple to support WMA.

  I mean, WTF? in the immortal words of John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious?"

  Posted by: jbond on August 17, 2005 at 12:27 AM

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