Tin Foil Soldier

Amazon’s MP3 store rips off your fair use rights - Boing Boing
The problem with DRM is that it tries to enforce a physical-world ruleset of scarcity on infinitely replicable data. One purchase, one copy, pretending to be physical goods. Which sucks, because data should be much more flexible than physical goods.

So then we get rid of DRM, and we rid ourselves of artificial scarcity. But then we’ve lost the parallel to physical goods — our personal copy can easily propagate among our own domestic hardware, and there’s really no incentive to “rid” ourselves of the file’s presence in our personal ecosystems if we sell it to someone else.

Awesome comment about DRM, even if it is from an old post about an old amazon service, the same pretty much applies to any DRM.  Anyway, DRM Sucks! I use an iPod but don’t use iTunes, where does that leave me?