Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

Thanks to everybody else who got in touch to help me with this situation. I will explain in detail the DRM at the end of the post, so people living in restricted countries can tune out and avoid the thought police, but you all played your part in helping me understand how it worked. My brother

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

Eric, Thanks much for all these great resources! Cait > On Feb 15, 2016, at 3:00 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > May I suggest: > http://www.downpour.com > http://www.tantor.com > http://www.booksinmotion.com > htt

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

DRM, Digital rights Management. Chris. - Original Message - From: Jessica Moss To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 9:25 PM Subject: Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil What is drm, and what do you find wrong with it? I've

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Of course in the states we also have DCMA which says that the mere act of breaking encryption (the basis of many DRM schemes) is illegal. So if you buy a DVD and wish to make a copy so you can extract the audio tracks, copy it to your favorite iDevice or just have a backup in case the original

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Hi Jessica, DRM stands for digital rights management. In other words, digital licencing strategies that restrict how media is distributed online and policies that govern how you access your data. DRM's usually take the form of security encryption that prevents you from making copies of digita

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

DRM stands for digital rights management. If music or audio files are protected by DRM can only be played on computers that are authorized to play them. This means that you can't just copy these files to a flash drive and copy them to another computer. Does this make sense? PS, did you go to t

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

What is drm, and what do you find wrong with it? I've heard that mentioned, and think I found something with that extention when I used to transfer music files onto my windows mobile phone, when I used to use one, but never opened them. On Feb 15, 2016, at 3:00 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > May

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

Thanks for the list Erik. Actually, I’m familiar with some of these, particularly Downpour, but because Audible often turned up stuff not available there, I’d be come a bit complacent in checking. Will be far more vigilant going forward, of course. I still buy CDs, if it means avoiding DRM, a

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

I value how-to material and generally prefer to keep them on my Victor Reader. All other kinds of books I read I am less likely to care about retrieving again. That might be one way to protect yourself from losing as much valuable content, unless of course storing them this way would be ille

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

May I suggest: http://www.downpour.com http://www.tantor.com http://www.booksinmotion.com http://www.emusic.com/book-genres/audiobook/ Also, while I'm not a fan of physical media too much any more, many books that can't be purchased drm-free can be purchased as mp3 cd's. http://www.audiobookstand

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that he can no longer log in to his account. And you'll never guess