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Episode: 164
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Title: HPR0164: Copyfight Vol 2
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0164/hpr0164.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 12:37:27
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Hi, you're listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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I'm 330 and this is Copy Fight.
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As most of you may know, Yahoo's DRM music store is being killed due to a lack of interest.
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So Yahoo's offering coupons for real network extravcity und DRM music store.
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And this got me wondering, what are people going to do if Apple shuts down the fair play
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servers?
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Or if any of the myriad of other DRM music stores ever shut down?
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What if the other stores don't offer you a rebate of any kind?
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And just how many people could this affect?
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If Apple ever stopped issuing keys for its fair play DRM, then just like Yahoo and MSN
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users, iTunes users would be prevented from moving their music to different machines
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or devices.
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That would affect most of the 5 billion songs that Apple has sold.
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So what do you do if you're trapped in this predicament?
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Well really, the best way to not be trapped into DRM is to never start into it.
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There are plenty of legal ways to get digital music.
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To keep from having to do the steps described later in this podcast, you should look into
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DRM free stores.
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Off the top of my head, I can think of Amazon's MP3 store, Rhapsody, Magnetune, E-Music,
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and Gemendo.
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If you know of any others, please leave them in the comments.
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Please know that the rest of this episode may have suggestions that are illegal in your
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area.
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Please follow these instructions at your own risk.
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If you don't know what DRM scheme is used to restrict you, you can burn off the tracks
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to CD and the CDA format.
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CDA is the way that press CDs come from the store.
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After you burn the tracks to CD and CDA format, you can re-rip the tracks back to the
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track on your computer.
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This method really sucks because then you have to tag all the tracks yourself, but for
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most this really won't be necessary.
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The most common DRM scheme is Microsoft's place for sure.
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But what if place for sure isn't really for sure?
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Well then you can download Fair Use for WM.
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There's a link in the show notes.
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I personally have never used this app, but it comes highly recommended and now supports
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the new Zoon Marketplace tracks.
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If you're an iTunes prisoner and you're on Windows, there's some really good news.
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Janjo Hansen, also known as DVD John, has created an app called Double Twist.
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Double Twist will go through your library and quote, unquote, liberate your iTunes library.
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It only works with music as far as I know.
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And not, you know, the movies and the TV shows and all that that are available in iTunes.
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He's working on that.
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It is stupidly easy to set up though.
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All you do is go to doubletwist.com, click on the download button and follow the directions
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that are on that page.
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It will require a .NET framework, but Windows should resolve that dependency for you.
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The one thing to remember is that if you buy DRM free the first time, you won't have
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to go through these legally questionable steps to liberate your music collection.
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For more information on this, please go to defectivebydesign.org.
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This has been 330, and this has been Copy Fight.
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Tune in next time for another great episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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HPR is sponsored by Carol.NET.
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She'll head on over to C-A-R-O dot N-C for all of her TV.
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