Point 1: I’ve purchased and downloaded some wmv videos, which is drm protected – so I cant copy them to MP3 player and my wifes htc diamond OR ANY DEVICES? I was shocked!!! #%#$%!!
WHY this happens?
So found a way – drmbuster – it converts my wmv (and avi actually) directly to my iPod.
found another software:drmremoval – seems to works slowly, but perhaps I miss smth.

Point second:
Can’t copy to my iPhone avi from my hard disk! I own that avi (movie maker production :) ) and I own the iPhone! So what&!. I can’t – I get a message: “cannot be imported because it does not appear to be a valid exported file”… ###ing limitation.
I was amazed, but drmbuster did this job for me too. It even recompressed video to iphone screen size – so I don’t have to copy all 900mbytes to devices. Just 200!!

The program is capable to convert any format I had on my hard drive – I even dragged there my while entertainment hard drive (I use different ones for windows and entertainment, to not loose valuable video), and it reconverted everithing, that looks like a video or sound.
fortunately, I hadn’t iphone conneted, otherwise it may be fully fill its memory!
Really, extremely easy to use piece of software – napster converter, itunes converter.

I am a big fun of skins and skinned software! I contacted their support, and was given an answer – If you gather some more users who desires this – we will implement for you!
What do you think juys, let’s ask them?
Please….

Glad to see others who’ve seen what I see.
Cheers!
OSRB

http://www.burningthumb.com/drmdumpster.html

And besides that, DRM just isn’t a human rights issue. At most, it’s an issue of consumer inconvenience, and if an individual consumer doesn’t feel inconvenienced, it’s going to be hard to get them to care. A user with iTunes, an iPod nano, and internet access will rarely notice Fairplay, if ever.

I find legal MP3s online and subscribe to eMusic. There are a lot of great independent groups out there and I’ve been turned on to a lot of them. Still, I find there are a lot of songs and bands that I wish I could in good conscious buy and, yeah, it sucks when I find something else that I want and can either a) pay for a crippled version or b) find a free pirated (albeit non-crippled) version.

And to me, that’s the strangest part of all this. It’s not like any of this can’t already be found online, completely free of both cost and restrictions. Why not just make the same product available to the honest folks out there? I (and probably most folks) will happily pay for a completely legit download through a store with a nice interface and good catalog.

Pirated music (and software) can be a pain to find, especially if you’re picky about the quality and/or are looking for something a bit unusual. I think a lot of people would happily pay a bit (say, US$0.99/track?) for a good quality track that’s easy to find where you get nice “warm fuzzies” knowing that you’re “supporting the artist” (or, more likely, the artist’s record company, but at least you’re keeping it leagal).

I tell you, I’ll be all over ITMS if/when the DRM goes away, but until then, I’m only a window shopper at best.

Like others have said, boycotting iTunes is not useful in fighting DRM. Supporting things like the EMI showcases on Yahoo are. They’ve seen that releasing DRM-free music has generated big sales. It’s the only thing record companies understand.

“The record companies will be very pleased if people stop buying iTunes, and by CDs instead. If you want to boycott DRM, listen to public radio instead.”

Yes, because public radio regularly plays video podcasts, TV shows, and all the music artists I’m interested in exactly when I feel like listening to them.