I’ve just watched a BBC 24 Click Online broadcast about DRM, what is Richard Gooch from the International Federation of Phonographic Industry on about? Stating that everyone he knows only want to use an IPOD! What rubbish. I, for one will never buy an IPOD.
Why? I have a Sony Ericsson P910i mobile phone (a little old now), it syncs with my Outlook – I don’t need to carry my laptop as often, it has Internet access – I don’t need to carry my laptop as often, and it plays MP3’s – I don’t need to carry my laptop as often (for CDs)!!
I may still be in a minority by purchasing CDs and playing them on my CD player (yes, I have downloaded some music which I can also on my ‘MP3’ player), PC and ‘mobile phone/MP3 player’. But having everything on one portable device has got to be better than strangling yourself with yet another pair of ‘white’ earphones.
And to the argument, ‘isn’t it risky having everything on one device in case it gets lost or stolen! Make sure you have a backup (you already have the CDs back at ‘base’) and to the argument of what about space – buy yourself a 2Gbyte memory card!
I’m all for DRM – I work in the publishing industry, so this is something that I fully endorse for all media and its use, but don’t tell me that I can only play my music – that I have purchased – when someone else tells me; when, where and on what device.
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