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Apple disputes EMI's new iPod DRM claim

updated 08:40 am EST, Fri November 18, 2005

EMI iPod DRM


The EMI Group record label said music from its will soon play on Apple's iPod digital music players, but Apple is already disputing this claim, reports TMCnet. For more than a year, the anti-copying technology loaded on some major label compact discs has been compatible only with Windows-based computers, with no support for Macs or iPods. This is about to change, according to EMI: "Apple is nearly finished with the technical work necessary to enable consumers to transfer music from content-protected discs to their iPods," the label said in a statement detailing its copy-protection plans. But Apple disputes EMI's claims: "The information EMI provided regarding iTunes and iPod compatibility with Macrovision's technology is not true and we have no idea why EMI made this statement," Apple said in a statement.


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  1. eswinson

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    11/18, 09:41am | report spam | Reply |

    mp3

    if you can rip it to a standard mp3 or acc file it will play... maybe they provide an export utility of some sort

  1. Interlard

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    11/18, 09:59am | report spam | Reply |

    ?Confusion?

    Sounds like where I work: "We did it." "No we didn't."

    Anyway, haven't Macs been left out of the copy-protected CD racket? I thought only Windows was prevented from ripping CDs.

    I don't actually know because I although I prefer to buy CDs (the ultimate, tangible backup), I have stopped buying them as a sympathy protest to all the spyware that they put on Windows computers.

  1. piracy

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    11/18, 10:19am | report spam | Reply |

    This is complete c***

    NO WORK needs to be done for Macs to rip from "content-protected" discs. In order for these so-called "protected" discs to even WORK in a normal Audio CD player, the unencrypted audio tracks MUST be present on the disc...this means that iTunes - or any other tool - can rip the music. Content-protected discs rely on secretly installing (or tricking the user into installing) special software that acts as an intermediary on the computer and explicitly prevents ripping discs that identify themselves as "protected". But if this software is not installed, the discs can be ripped, period (and this goes for Windows, too). God only knows why they are even saying *anyone* needed to do any "work" to allow ripping...

    Now, if they're saying something would need to be done when the software *is* installed to allow ripping, yeah, iTunes would have to be aware of it. The idea would be that it wouldn't allow unapproved ripping, and, in theory, could also apply DRM to the tracks. Unfortunately for EMI (or anyone who thinks that Apple is "in on it"), Apple is definitely not doing any of this, and content-protected CDs can be ripped TODAY on Macs with iTunes or any other tool, in the same fashion any other CD can be ripped.

  1. kaisdaddy

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    11/18, 10:39am | report spam | Reply |

    They got their info...

    ...from the same place they did when EMI's CEO said that "everybody knows" there will be variable pricing on iTunes within 12 months.

  1. testudo

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    11/18, 12:47pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: complete c***

    Apple is definitely not doing any of this, and content-protected CDs can be ripped TODAY on Macs with iTunes or any other tool, in the same fashion any other CD can be ripped.

    Only if you use a mac. Most iPod users are PC users, where all that protection stuff more than likely works.

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