His book "Why None Of My Books Are Available On Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55" captures the soul, heart, nuance (and grammar) that he repeatedly brings to these issues.

He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection. Resulting in twice compressed 128k MP3s and innumerable blog posts.

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chimeracoder 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

> He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection

What are you referring to here?

	▲	jandrese 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sounds like the analog hole. You play DRM material out the audio port and at the same time capture the input of that and re-encode in a non-DRM format.
	▲	badlibrarian 3 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He set up two computers and manually played low-res DRM-protected MP3 files out of one and into the other for weeks, documenting the process on BoingBoing. He touted this not only as freedom but "preservation."