top | item 46036303

(no title)

chimeracoder | 3 months ago

> He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection

What are you referring to here?

discuss

order

badlibrarian|3 months 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."

chimeracoder|3 months 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|3 months ago

Sounds 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.