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Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims
An anonymous reader notes that the Beastie Boys have responded to claims that their new album is DRM-crippled; their response is that the US and UK versions aren't crippled, and the DRM software is only installed in RAM, not on disk. See our previous story for background.
According to this article, they sure don't.
I don't even care about the Beastie Boys music, but I'm downloading it right now so that I can share it out. If the artists and labels don't respect fair use, fair use will be thrust upon them.
"Uh, if you are buying the album and you're going to rip it to iTunes why not just buy it from the iTunes Music Store in the first place? Then you only need to buy it once."
I bought it from the iTunes store, only to find that I can't burn it to CD to listen to it anywhere else, so it's stuck in iTunes or my iPod. Now while I can see the point here, I was under the impression that you could burn a CD x times using iTunes. Not true.
Hence I now see that I'm in a worse position buying from iTunes than I am if I bought the CD.
I will be buying the CD in future, unless the iTunes Music Store makes it clearer as to the limitations of each album. Personally, I think that a license to listen to the music should be cross-format. The license should be attached to me listening to the tracks, not my iPod or my PC/Mac, or any other format.