Nov 8, 2008 0
My DRM-free collection
I don’t have any problems with DRM in my music. This is because I don’t have any DRM’d music. I really only buy CDs. I am a collector and it is not quite as fun to collect bits and bytes as it is a physical CD or a beautifully large LP. Still, I am firmly on the side of DRM-free music offerings and if I did purchase more music online I would only use Amazon or another DRM-free source. I’d be in trouble if I did buy DRMd music anyway as I use a Squeezebox at home to listen to my collection.
So it is with pleasure that I find this iTunes script which allows one to browse the iTunes store and then click a menu-item to take them to the same album on Amazon’s mp3 sales site. The appearance of tools like this should be a sign to Apple that people don’t want DRM – and they are smart enough to know what it is and how it restricts them.
In a soundbite, Apple, these folks are trying to Think Differently – perhaps you should too.