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EFF Guide to Music DRM

EFF layperson’s guide to crippling DRM in music services
EFF has just published an amazing, plain-language guide to the ways that online music services take away your rights — this is perfect for giving to your non-geek friends (directors, patrons, Friends, etc.) to explain the dangers of buying DRM-crippled music. Included are Microsoft Plays For Sure, Real Music Store, Napster 2.0 and iTunes Music Store:

EFF on DRM, iTunes: “The Customer Is Always Wrong”

In April 2004, Apple decided to “modify the DRM so people could burn the same playlist only 7 times, down from 10.

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