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"You kids still like your FM radio, right?"

um. yeah.

Posted by greg | April 23, 2008 3:44 PM
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There's an even better way to permanently keep the tunes you purchased legally on msn: download them from a peer-to-peer network and never pay for them again.

Posted by flamingbanjo | April 23, 2008 4:25 PM
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I was going to post something along those lines, #2, but I thought maybe it's just old, old news that DRM is never going to encourage people to stop sharing files, that in fact it's going to drive people to share files rather than paying for music encoded with malware. DRM is the future like FM radio is the future.

Posted by Eric Grandy | April 23, 2008 4:32 PM
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Old news to you and me, but it sure seems like the RIAA, Microsoft and various other DRM boosters still haven't gotten the memo.

Posted by flamingbanjo | April 23, 2008 6:01 PM
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5 operating systems? What's that, like 30 years? I've heard that CD's have a life expectancy of about 10 years (because the glue that holds the metal inside the plastic fails and the metal corrodes). I've also seen this happen in my own collection. 5 operating systems seems fair enough.

Posted by mattro2.0 | April 24, 2008 10:56 AM
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Um, if you're listening to an mp3, can you really complain about sound quality caused by burning then ripping? It already sounds like ass, might as well make it a hairy ass.

Posted by KEN | April 27, 2008 8:27 PM

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