If you can break DRM they can't force you to buy a new copy every time they introduce a new format or you buy new hardware. That's a big part of their buisness model, you buy the white album as a LP, then an 8-track then a cassette then a cd then on itunes (ooops no drm end of the line). If they allowed fair use for things like backups you'd only have to buy something once and all those poor media executives wouldn't be able to afford 2 private jets this year. I mean they deserved to be paid for their work screwing consumers right? Not get taken advantage of by a bunch of freeloaders who don't want to pay extra to rip a cd to their ipod
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