InstaPundit points to a Newsweek story about growing dissatisfaction with the Digital Rights Management code built into music sold through online services like iTunes and Zune.

Now I don't know the first thing about Zune, and it's safe to say that I probably never will. But I do know that iTunes DRM is as easily beaten as the French Army. Not that I would ever suggest you do anything of the sort, but if you were the sort of person who would do this sort of thing, this is what you do.

First make a playlist of songs you bought from iTunes.

Burn those songs to an audio CD.

Rip the songs from that CD back into iTunes as MP3 files.

Done.

Now I've read somewhere that if you do this, you might suffer some very minor quality degradation. However if you're a serious audiophile you're not spending a lot of time listening to music on your computer, and you already know that an iPod is not the be all and end all of sound quality.

That's what I read somewhere. Now you've read it here. What you do with the knowledge is up to you.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:29 PM | No Comments | Add Comment