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> He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection What are you referring to here?
by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection
What are you referring to here?
- badlibrarian 10mo agoHe set up two computers and manually played low-res DRM-protected MP3 files out of one and into the other for weeks, documenting the process on BoingBoing. He touted this not only as freedom but "preservation."
- chimeracoder 10mo ago> He set up two computers and manually played low-res DRM-protected MP3 files out of one and into the other for weeks, documenting the process on BoingBoing. He touted this not only as freedom but "preservation." I see. When I hear "record collection" I think of vinyl records, so I was quite confused how DRM was relevant there.
- jandrese 10mo agoSounds like the analog hole. You play DRM material out the audio port and at the same time capture the input of that and re-encode in a non-DRM format.