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(Unverified)Jan 7th 2008 12:30PM

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I think people (at the record labels, as the commenter above points out) have finally figured out that the problem with piracy is not the *source* of the material, it's the *distribution*. Only one person needs to get their hands on a non-protected copy of your content, and the genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. Maybe this will be the year they stop bothering altogether (except for subscription/rental services, of course).

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(Unverified)Jan 7th 2008 1:09PM

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Exactly, James. I buy music because I like the song, and think the artist is worth supporting financially. What's distasteful to me most about DRM is that I purchase a song legally, and the labels immediately assume I'm going to give to everyone and their uncle, and put it on a public server for every one to download. So I give them money, and they treat me like I'm dishonest.

There are dishonest people, sure. But DRM hasn't stopped piracy. It's just cheesed off the people that were buying music in the first place. So they either stopped buying, like I did, or they bought physical media and ripped it, or they became pirates.

It's just sort of a wonder to me that it took the labels so long to catch on.

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