The crime: Playing iTunes on devices not named iPod

Paris protest targets restrictions antipiracy laws impose on use of legally purchased songs, videos.
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[Thomas, David]

This is Crazy

You CAN, and are ALLOWED, to copy your iTunes purchased
songs to another format, to play them on a different device.
Simply by creating AIFF files (converting the songs into AIFF)
allows you to convert them into any other audio format.

Where's the beef?! They simply want to do away with DRM. ...
All I can say to that is, "Dream On". That ship was due to sail
from the moment record labels, artists, and other content
providers, realized that a single copy of their work, intended for
sale, can be replicated beyond control without protection. Does
any believe there is some "honor" system involved?!

Like I said, this is crazy.

[willdryden]

Yes it is.

But the law is very specific. You can not bypass or render the DRM invalid on any copy.

[PzkwVIb]

You post this

on almost every forum. Buy a clue no one cares about your off topic drivel.

[john55440]

Universal DRM

If there is to be a DRM, then it should be a universal one, so a purchased song can be played on any player of music phone.

The current DRM situation encourages piracy, by overly restricting and/or inconveniencing legal purchasers of digital music.

[hadaso]

Choose: DRM or copyright

Copyright protection is granted by the laws of most (or all) countries to authors that make their work publicly available. These laws set the rules such as limits tothe term of the granted privilege etc. Authors who make their work available receive free protection of these privileges by the judicial system (that belongs to the public).

Works that are protected by DRM are not publicly available in this sense. They do not become freely copiable after the legal term is over or in conditions the law defines as allowing free copying. Therefore laws should be changed to make a dichotomy: an author or distributor that relies on DRM waives the right of protection by means of copyright laws.