Today is the Day Against Digital Rights (Restrictions) Management - DRM. I am adamantly against DRM, or anything that limits my freedom. I have personally never purchased any type of music with DRM. This was my experience with DRM:
I received a coupon for $20 in free downloads from one of the big music stores when I purchased my portable music. Since I use Linux exclusively, I had to borrow a Windows PC to download and load the files onto my portable player. I attempted to make a backup of the files when I downloaded them, but for one reason or another it would not work. Okay, no problem, I'll just copy them from the player if I ever needed them back on the computer, that's what I do with mp3 files. Wrong! As I discovered later, once it was on the portable player, I could not move it. When I upgraded players, I was unable to copy it from the player, onto the computer, then put it on another player. I would have been furious if I had paid for those songs. It was then that I swore I would never voluntarily subject myself to DRM again.
What bothers me the most is that people accept this as something legitimate, to have their music limited. I explain to everyone I know who uses a portable music player the options they have. It's a system I simply refuse to be a part of, at least as long as I have the freedom to choose.
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