It appears that at least someone at the British Phonographic Industry has a clue - however, the European version appear to be still a bunch of muppets. Oh well. At least my MP3 player, my computers, my phone, my DVD players, and all the other assorted gadgetry I have that plays MP3 aren't illegal in this country (or at least not illegal enough for it to be worth kicking our door down at 6am and dragging me off to Guantanamo Bay). Even some influential Americans might be rethinking DRM - they'll have to wait and see though, because there is another ridiculous law about to be forced through Congress in America that will require seperate "licences" (which is a daft term in itself when you apply it to music) for every single device that you intend to play the music that you purchased on.
DRM is so fundamentally broken and short sighted that I can't believe anyone would be daft enough to support it - it will probably then mean that nobody will buy anything from American or Japanese companies any more (Sony, I'm looking at you) and instead get things that actually do what people want from Chinese or Korean or other Eastern places, probably far cheaper too. Surely many hundreds of years of experience will show that people tend not to buy things that are useless, and are far more likely to buy things that are useful. It's not rocket science.
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