Short one

Sorry this one's gonna be short, and, alas, the last for the week. We settled on the new house yesterday, and I'm gonna be moving from tomorrow to sunday. Won't be gettin' Internet access back 'til Monday. And all the stuff leadin' up to kept my from doin' it until today.

Whinin' over, did anybody happen to see this Wired article: Consumers Don't Want Flexible DRM
http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71240-0.html?tw=wn_index_21. Seems that some small start up company wants to make sure you can listen to your Billy Joel tunes on any player, bought from any digital download vendor. Seems to be pretty much the same thing Real does (and when's the last time anybody actually bought a song from them), but your files and their DRM will be stored on some small company's server somewhere. What happens if these guys go belly up? Where's my files?

Much as I'd love to see open format DRM, if we have to have it at all, I agree with Wired. This one's a step back.