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I stopped downloading from P2P services when it became a pain. Mostly what I miss from P2P downloading were non-studio and non-released amateur recordings of stuff I had in all its form from the labels.
I NEVER bought DRM protected music. I've always felt that anything that required a DRM server made my purchase...more of a "rental at will". I've always thought of this as an evil RIAA scheme to keep reselling you the same music over and over as time passed.
Since WalMart and Amazon started selling non-DRM music I've bought about 100 songs. Mostly music I was introduced to through Pandora. I'd have bought more, but not every song I want is available on the non-DRM services.
(It's too bad that Pandora totally dissed us WM users and developed their first smartphone app for the iPhone...bastards)
Prior to that, the only thing I purchased were used CDs. I could rip my own and didn't have to worry about it ceasing to work.
It's hard for me to believe that anyone who buys DRMed music doesn't use one of many converters available to get it to regular MP3s or burn them to CDs as backup so they can be re-ripped. A pain to be sure, but it's always been the smart thing to do.
DRM is evil and has been from day one. It's been discredited and is a marketing negative, and eventually all DRM services will cease operating. What should happen, is that legit services should offer their users tools to convert all their DRMed music to non-DRM, including Microsoft and Apple, and the RIAA should bless such a movement. Rather than pinning their hopes on selling DRM buyers their music in non-DRMed form (the only reason such tools are not yet authorized).
I'd put my money on Microsoft embracing such a move before the far more fascist, customer-control and developer-control obsessed Apple.
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