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Stephen Downes

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Derek Morrison learns a valuable lesson about DRM before it costs him too much: never, ever buy DRM-enabled hardware or content. Morrison reports, "This device is making the assumption that all MP3 files are rights-protected music and so I've lost the right to do with my non-rights-protected data what I like. This wasn't much of an issue when the iFP799 was working because I listened and deleted but now that it's broken I've had my rights unilaterally terminated."

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