DRM Has Got Me Stuck In The Middle
When the iTunes store came out I started buying all my music through it, everything seemed to work, and all my devices played my songs. I was happy. Then I found a little tool that enabled me to view, navigate and control all my iTunes music through my xbox 360 from my Mac, playing through my home theater, this was amazing (full screen visualizer on a 42″ plasma). Then I found out that my iTunes purchased music won’t play through the xbox 
Now i’m stuck in the middle, I don’t buy CD’s and I don’t shop on iTunes any more. All I do is listen to Pandora, i wish Pandora played on my N95 
From a customer experience standpoint DRM is taking away my control, and I want to be in control of things I buy, period.
BTW Why on earth did Pandora decide to go exclusively with Sprint? i would gladly pay a subscription if I could get a Symbian version of Pandora. The crowdsource company CambrianHouse obviously thinks it’s a good idea.
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david
I sympathize whole-heartedly. Though I rarely buy things on iTunes (the only things I’ve bought were albums they were selling for $6), I find that DRM is very annoying. There are, of course, questionably legal ways to unlock DRMed music (the hymn project, for instance) but for now most of us are left with the choice of buying CDs or entering questionable legal territory. When/If record companies ever realize that consumers don’t want it this way, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Aug 20th, 2007
Chanse Arrington
If you want a great streaming radio experience like “Pandora” check out spodtronic. It’s great. Peace, Love, & Nokia
Aug 20th, 2007
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