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DRM - Seriously, Why Not?

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soap:
Let's kill all the philosophical discussion of DRM bad / DRM good.
Those are (by definition) personal opinions, and nobody is going to be convinced one way or the other.

If this thread is to continue please let us stay on topic and discuss ONLY why Rockbox can not use DRM.

There is obviously a large amount of confusion over the issue, with many people apparently under the assumption that their player (be it a Sansa (PlaysForSure) or an iPod (FairPlay)) has the magic DRM key in it - and therefore it is just a matter of Rockbox using said key.
This is an over-simplification of the DRM process, to the point of misunderstanding - yet I am not the best one to explain why.

Hef:
Now we are getting some good explanations- Thanks.
The complexity of it, the explanation, will make this a good thread for all that follow looking for the same thing.

Sorry I may have gotten some people annoyed with my lack of knowledge on the subject - I really thought it was just a license authentication issue.

I still disagree with the philosophical views - The business model that Rhapsody introduces - with a family like mine taking advantage of all the music available -
I just wish I had this when I was 15! I spent hours hitting the record button on my cassette recorder when a good song came on the radio. You get the late starts and early interupptions from the DJ cutting in.
Those were the days.

Thanks Everyone.
Hef

melancholydm:
does this thread even need to continue? they already pointed out that DRM doesn't support open source projects and already pointed out that even if they wanted to be able to play DRM music on rockbox they cant anyway since you need a. license key, b. encryption key and lastly c. algorithm that NO ONE outside of the few music distributing companies know about.

Yotto:
I thought it had.  8 daytime (albeit holiday for many of us) hours passed between the last post (which finished with a kind of finality with "Thanks Everyone") and yours.

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