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Author: rgames
Date: 2007-08-20 20:55
Yeah, DRM is a pain, but so is buying a CD that turns out to be not worth the money you spent on it. I still buy CD's of recordings I really like (and some that I can't get online) - for the cost of a single CD a month, though, I get the right to "audition" as many as I like. Those tracks are, indeed, crippled in terms of the freedoms I have with them but, given the cost, I think it's a great tradeoff.
Buying CD's and buying downloads are not mutually exclusive: having the option to do both is much better than the options you have with either, alone.
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you still have unlimited access to your $250 of CDs
Replace "CD" with "8-track" or "BetaMax". Consumer audio/video technologies are ALWAYS dependent upon a supporting distribution/presentation network. Having a DRM-enabled digital audio device is just another form of required supporting technology. Sure, I still have 8-track tapes, and I can do whatever I want with them. Well, except play them, that is...
DRM is the way of the future; I'll bet on it. And just because you have a physical copy of a CD or DVD won't mean much in a few years, anyway, because the big names are incorporating DRM into those technologies, as well. For example, I just bought a new computer monitor and I had to make certain it was HDCP enabled so that it will let me watch the latest DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray discs in a couple of years.
Speaking of HD disc content, anybody know which format will be the next BetaMax? Prices are coming down and I'm thinking of getting a player...
Ain't technology grand? 
rgames
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