[MPlayer-users] WMA DRM format?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:04:43PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:43:14PM -0600, Mike Perry wrote:
> >
> >>Have any solutions been reached as to what to do about the WMA9 DRM
> >>format under Linux?
> >
> >Yes, don't make such files.
> 
> I thought the question was about playing them, not creating them. If
> someone else already created one, there's not much you can do about
> that, but you can still want to watch it.

My understanding is that you only come to have such DRM'd files if:

1) you download from a drm-based music purchase site.
        OR
2) you rip songs from cd with wmp, with drm turned on.

In either case, the files are meant to be playable only on the
computer they were originally intended for. So I don't see how you
would get a DRM-encumbered file without doing something stupid. It's
not like people trade DRM wma files on irc or p2p networks...

Rich