Some trial run have been conducted to find out actually how much DRM sucks — battery life , that is . The general results is a loss up to 25 percent of battery life when playing back songs laced with WMA 10 DRM .
The Creative Zen Vision went from a 16 - hour playback clock time down to 12 - hour when play only WMA 10 DRM song . Other mp3 player showed similar results . Before the fanboys flip over to aggress modality , this isn t just limited to the WMA DRM , Apple ’s FairPlay DRM also had some battery loss effects , 8 percent to be exact .
In the long runnel , the plague known as DRM will kill your digital audio players . myopic barrage time means more mission , and less life of a musician .
Tests detect DRM shortens player battery life history by up to ~25%[cdfreaks ]
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