DRM Reduces Battery Life

gr8_phk writes "An interesting article over at C|Net claims that playing DRMed music can reduce battery life up to 25 percent. Yet another reason to stick with plain old MP3 files." From the article: "Those who belong to subscription services such as Napster or Rhapsody have it worse. Music rented from these services arrive in the WMA DRM 10 format, and it takes extra processing power to ensure that the licenses making the tracks work are still valid and match up to the device itself. Heavy DRM not only slows down an MP3 player but also sucks the very life out of them."

More reasons DRM sucks..

[GillBates0]

In addition to sucking the life out of batteries, DRM has been recently found to cause cancer, kill puppies and make Baby Jesus cry.

More on these exciting discoveries at 11 (TM).

DRM suxx0rs

[tedgyz]

WTF? Do they do a license check after reading each bit?

And Shrinkage

[notestein]

And DRM causes Shrinkage.

Re:You don't say!

[ackthpt]

Adding CPU-intensive tasks such as encryption/DRM parsing requires more CPU, therefore more power, which therefore drains batteries at an increased rate.

This is why I play NetHack rather than World of Warcraft.

oh, and because it's free as in beer, too

Re:A Link != A Casual Link

[AKAImBatman]

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Ah, finally...

[moochfish]

Finally, a true "iPod Killer."

Re:Is this an objective story?

[rocketpig]

In Soviet Russia, DRM drains you!

Sorry, somebody had to say it.

Re:A Link != A Casual Link

[Al Dimond]

Yeah, but where are you going to find a storage device capable of holding 1,015,384 perfect studio recordings of 4'33"?

Re:And Shrinkage

[eclectro]

And DRM causes Shrinkage

...of your wallet.

Re:Wrong!

[Kohath]

You people with your facts and scientific methods.

You must be a DRM supporter. We don't cotton ta that 'round these parts. Are you on the payroll of a record company?

I also suspect you may weigh the same as a duck.

Re:Wrong!

[Anonymous Coward]

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

Re:Nobody mentioned OGG

[bloodmusic]

As everyone on Slashdot knows, playing Ogg Vorbis files actually charges your battery.

Not so!

[Anonymous Coward]

My MP3 player doesn't play WMA with DRM, so DRM increases my battery life almost infinitely.

Re:Comparing MP3 to WMA in general isn't useful th

[Anonymous Coward]

  All my foes are spelling or grammar Nazis.

And I think you lack the understanding of what it means to be a Nazi. They didn't just go around correcting people. It was a little worse than that.


All my foes are spelling, grammar, or Nazi Nazis.

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Re:Ah, finally...

[TubeSteak]

Don't let Chuck Norris hear you saying that...

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.