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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Is that the case in Germany?? I hadn't heard about any like that in the US. Of course, I stopped buying CDs ages ago when it became more cost effective for me to just buy single songs that I liked.
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It is, yes. And yes, this effectively forbids looking a DVD with an open-source-player on Linux, because those players circumvent the copy-protection system. The same would apply to any other player/reader/etc who circumvents the copy-protection-mechanism, and that means nearly all open-source-readers.
And that is the reason why I dispise any DRM-system out there. Of course, I could circumvent the DRM (it is easy) - but hey, if I buy my stuff, I at least want to use it legally... And if I'd have to use it illegally - well, I'm not going to buy it.
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I'm certain it's illegal as all hell, but I also take all of my iTunes music, convert it to mp3 and store it on one of my backup drives. I refuse to be told that, if my iPod breaks and I decide not to replace it with another iPod, I also lose all of the music I purchased.
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I understand you only too well. Nevertheless: A system that forces legitimate users into criminality is not a system worth considering or paying money too.