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[Discuss] Thumbs Up To Ben



On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

>
> Today the biggest threat to long term freedom, and history as a whole, is
> the cultural and legal acceptance of DRM. If you think about this and its
> eventual elimination of the free flow of information, you should be
> scared. VERY SCARED.
>
> Steve Jobs is one of the biggest violators of the freedom to actually
> control what you own.
>
>
>
Everyone that purchases music from iTunes can easily bypass the DRM by
creating a CD of their music, then ripping it back as whatever format they
wish.  I do this for backup purposes should something ever happen to
Apple/iTunes.

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