Hiya,
Insofar as I can recall, unless explicitly stated (especially in more
recent documents) you ARE 'permitted' to make a BACKUP of any media
you own, provided that is its sole purpose.
Wether it is usable (DRM) that's another matter...
Cheers,
Luis.
On 10 Sep 2008, at 21:24, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Hum!
It never ceases to amaze me that this sort of questions are even
asked.
As quickly as people develop electronic protection schemes other
people work out ways to get round them.
I have just spent 2 minutes searching with Google and, could,
should I wish (which I don't as I don't own any DRM or other-wise
protected media files), undo the protection "lickety-split".
Presumably Apple, in their "infinite wisdom", have protected their
media files just exactly so that everybody, including RR
programmers and end-users, cannot play them.
However, as Runtime Revolution works with Quicktime, it should play
any file that Quicktime can play. It is probably necessary to
'tell' Revolution to play DRM audio files using the Player object
as if they were video files; i.e. define DRM audio files with
videoClip rather than with audioClip. A few years ago I authored a
CD-ROM for Scottish High Schools on music education; I converted
all the original sound files into MOV files (using a blank image as
a dummy video file); this allowed for a good level of end-user
control via "play videoClip at xx,xx".
Personally I object to the following:
I am legally not allowed to make a backup copy of a DVD I own
(bl**dy silly when it gets damaged),
similarly with music CDs,
I am legally not allowed to transfer data from gramophone records I
own to home made music CDs for my own use,
I am legally not allowed to transfer data from cassette tapes I own
to home made music CDs for my own use,
I am legally not allowed to transfer data from VHS tapes I own to
home made DVDs for my own use.
As a result my home is full of gramophone players, cassette
players, VHS players and so forth, taking up an awful lot of space.
I am a child of the 1970s who grew up with a cheap cassette
recorder and an even cheaper record-player: my friends and I "cross-
copied" without being aware of doing anything 'naughty'. We all
spent quite a lot of our parents' hard-earned money on records.
So why on earth I should pay money for a DRM-protected piece of
music I cannot pop onto a CD to listen to on a picnic, or, even,
transfer to another of my machines so that I can listen to it in
another room, I don't know.
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