[olug] digital rights management at work

[Phil Brammer]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:56:22AM -0800, Eric Lusk wrote:
> With DRM, EVERYONE has to restrict where you can play
> your music.  Wal-Mart lets you download to one other
> computer, but that's assuming you can re-acquire the
> "licenses" for each song.
> I haven't tried iTunes on another computer yet, but I
> do know I have had better luck getting cds burned from
> their software.  Even Wal-Mart only uses .wma files,
> from what I've seen so far.  This seems to be a
> constant; the real question for me is whether I can
> burn them to cd without having to spend an hour on the
> phone to do so.
 
iTunes will let you play a song on up to 5 computers.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/share/

Or you can get around that limit by burning the MP3s to an audio CD and reimport the tracks as MP3s.  iTunes downloads are *.m4p files and are protected.

Phil