Jason Dunn of Digital Media Thoughts writes:

I’ve just emerged from a scuffle with DRM, and I’m one for two in the battle. Here’s what happened: recently I went out shopping with my wife, and among other things, I bought five new CDs. I love music, and am happy to support the artists whose music I enjoy.

The CDs I bought: Anna Nalick (Wreck of the Day), Hayley Westenra (Odyssey), Wide Mouth Mason (Shot Down Satellites), Nickelback (All the Right Reasons), and Dave Matthews Band (Stand Up). Of those five CDs, three were DRM free, and two were not. Guess which two? The most popular of the five, of course: Nickelback and DMB. I had heard stories about the DMB album, which is why I put off buying it for months. I’ve had a few DRM’d CDs come my way lately, and the DRM was easy enough to bypass, so I figured I’d give it a shot.

The Nickelback CD had some DRM on it that was tricky: holding down the shift key to bypass the autoplay didn’t help, because I still couldn’t rip it. Playing a hunch, I tried ripping the CD in Rio Music Manager, a rather archaic audio program used to load up my wife’s Rio Sport. Guess what? It’s such a “dumb” program, it was able to rip the Nickelback CD without a problem. Grab the Rio program while you can.

The DMB CD has proven to be much more difficult to rip…

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