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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by baybal2 on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:35PM (#21895813)
On early Ipods music was effectively "glued" to the individual player with a primitive DRM/scambling system.

So, you were dead in the water without Itunes that kept the fairplay key for that particular player

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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by xp84 on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:02PM (#21895980)
Yeah so you could lose music, but you could just restore the iPod and put new music on it. It didn't become a brick at any point unless it literally broke.
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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by duskwuff on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:49PM (#21896490)
Only for music downloaded from the iTunes Store. Even then, the restrictions were functionally identical to what was applied to desktop computers.

FairPlay was never applied to MP3 (or, later, AAC) files you loaded onto the device yourself -- you could pull them back off the device with little difficulty.

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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by asdff on Saturday December 28, 2019 @03:31AM (#21897847)
When my friends and I first got ipods, we figured you'd be able to just plug into peoples laptops and copy songs like a thumb drive. Boy did we learn that day.
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