{"id":12757,"date":"2006-03-19T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/drm-shortens-ipod-battery-life\/"},"modified":"2006-03-19T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T21:53:00","slug":"drm-shortens-ipod-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/drm-shortens-ipod-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"DRM Shortens iPod Battery Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the limitations of <acronym title=\"Digital Rights Management\">DRM<\/acronym>-crippled music weren&rsquo;t annoying enough, <i>Boing Boing<\/i> reports that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/16\/drm_shortens_ipod_ba.html\" target=\"_blank\">extra computations cycles necessary to decrypt DRM can actually drain your battery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Playing DRM-crippled music will shorten the battery life of your music-player. Listening to DRMed iTunes songs on an iPod shortens the battery life by eight percent; playing back WMA-crippled files on a device from Creative Labs can knock 25 percent off the life of your device&rsquo;s battery. The extra battery-drain is attributed to the computation necessary to decrypt the files and verify their licenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3.com\/features\/stories\/3646.html\" target=\"_blank\">full article at <i>MP3.com<\/i><\/a> goes into detail about battery life claims of mobile music players.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/ipod\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">ipod<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drm\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tech\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/hardware\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">hardware<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/software\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114263441829848879?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the limitations of DRM-crippled music weren&rsquo;t annoying enough, Boing Boing reports that the extra computations cycles necessary to decrypt DRM can actually drain your battery: Playing DRM-crippled music will shorten the battery life of your music-player. Listening to DRMed iTunes songs on an iPod shortens the battery life by eight percent; playing back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/19\/drm-shortens-ipod-battery-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DRM Shortens iPod Battery Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}