Do you feel shackled to old technology just so that the music middle men can maintain their inflated profit margin? Well, you should now.

Released just three days ago by RCA, the new Foo Fighters CD contains DRM that supposedly prevents the CD from being loaded and ripped via iTunes. Customers are already complaining that their legally purchased music isn’t worth the money they paid for it because they can only listen to it in CD players.”


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  1. To make things worse, the DRM software is nearly impossible to completely remove from the computer. In fact, it would seem that the only way to totally remove their software once it’s been installed is to format your hard drive. I shared my experience with this problem here: Use Sony DRM, Format Your Hard Drive

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