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Is DRM really inevitable for streaming video ? I can listen to my music as much as I want, unrestricted, without DRM, through deezer. And that's a premium service. They seem to be doing just fine.

Besides, spotify uses flash for their webplayer, probably for DRM as well. Yet there exists an open source spotify client, despotify, that probably would make it very easy to download the music as MP3.

In the end, DRM just means making your client's life a pain.

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Deezer uses DRM. they mention it right in their developer API terms of use: http://developers.deezer.com/termsofuse

What do you mean, without DRM? Does Deezer provide you with mp3 files to put on your devices (ipod shuffle or similar)? Can you send a file to a friend? Or does Deezer forces you to be online and/or use Deezer's own app to listen to your music?

There are a lot of ways to engineer DRM in a system, I think you just don't see that you're actually using a DRMed system to play your music.

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