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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...and didn't realize you were protecting your own content...
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...and protecting it from yourself, I might add!
Maybe we don't want to start the whole DRM rants all over again, but I sure am stymied by the fact that the best minds in companies like Sony and Microsoft haven't been able to come up with schemes that actually work for both sides of the transaction. I agree that sharing files in ways that don't reimburse the legal rights owner is wrong, but there HAS to be a better way than what's been available so far -- and ESPECIALLY a system that isn't outdated, abandoned or otherwise changed a few months or even years after its introduction.
While I understand (I think) where Microsoft is coming from on this, I think they're shooting themselves in the foot. It's my belief that customers will accept systems that are inferior in many ways, as long as that system WORKS. iTunes doesn't have the breadth of selection of other stores, but it works (especially with the iPOD) and it works and it works.