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[waider]

The Dave Matthews Band says:

Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above.

Hi Dave And His Band, how about y'all quit kowtowing to Microsoft media formats, instead of asking users of what is probably the dominant media player to do something awkward? Ideally, you know, by simply not using inane copy-protection schemes, but heck, by using Apple's DRM instead of Microsoft's? (yes this is all rhetorical, in particular since I pretty much gave up buying CDs several years ago)

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Also, please stop making music that sucks, thanks.

[king-mob.livejournal.com]

And even if you hadn't, come on. A Dave Matthews CD? Unlikely, I think.

[waider.livejournal.com]

You and ronebofh need to coordinate your followups, I think. The point was not the band in question, but the implication that it was somehow Apple's fault that the iPod-people can't transfer this CD to their devices.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of the newer CDs with the big ugly FBI anti-piracy label on the box. It's absolutely hideous. And, of course, the copy-protection is pointless; i ripped the CD without problems (although the final track ripped with a bunch of noise after the song was over) on FreeBSD.