Copyright 2006Michael Bartonpalrich@gmail.com2010-09-07T15:03:06ZWeirdLooking.comhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/images/feed.pnghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/Michael Bartonhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/mp3s-and-drm2005-12-30T22:23:01Z2005-12-30T22:23:01ZMy parents got me a CD/MP3/WMA receiver for my car for Christmas.&nbsp; I haven&rsquo;t actually managed to get it installed or anything yet, but I&rsquo;m beginning to wonder how exactly one could legally create a CD of MP3s.<br /><br />The first option is to purchase CDs and rip them.&nbsp; This is not very cost-effective if I only want one song on a CD, and CDs are beginning to include <acronym title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</acronym> software (you can see <a href="http://muujware.com/journal.asp?JournalItemID=-1062053759" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fmuujware.com%2Fjournal.asp%3FJournalItemID%3D-1062053759) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>Matt's rant</a> on this).&nbsp; Online music stores are handy and more cost effective, but they all include DRM as well.<br /><br />Any DRM scheme can be defeated (<a href="http://blog.itproportal.com/?p=30" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fblog.itproportal.com%2F%3Fp%3D30) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>some trivially</a>), but the <acronym title="Digital Millenium Copyright Act">DMCA</acronym> makes that illegal in most cases.&nbsp; So I guess I&rsquo;ll wind up breaking the law one way or another.&nbsp; I wonder how the legal penalties compare between pirating music and breaking the DMCA to fairly use songs I own a license for.<br /><br />They should really wink at you when you buy one of these things.http://www.weirdlooking.com/atom/comments/471