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---Until there is a COMMON DRM and full format compatibility---

How about instead, we say, "Until content providers realize the futility of DRM and do away with it altogether...."

It's a losing battle. They're pouring fistloads of cash into new schemes that will be cracked within minutes of their release. It serves no purpose, other than to punish law abiding customers and drive people to illegal p2p networks.

---Let's say you buy $1000 worth of music from a download service. Then that service goes bankrupt or 'gets out of the business'---

Certainly an issue for many sites that phone home, and for subscription sites. For the iTMS, once your machine is registered, it's fine and will keep working even if Apple falls off the face of the earth. Of course, eventually, your computer will die/need to be replaced, so you'll be in trouble then. But hopefully you'll have burned everything to cd by then, although you'll end up with a loss in sound quality when you re-rip.

---Who do I think will bail first? Microsoft. They have a habit of bailing on consumers without consumer regard when they don't see the profit numbers they expect---

Interesting question. MS has certainly not pursued this market as strongly as was expected. I guess they're happier to sit on the sidelines and sell everyone their WMA format licenses. Is the buy.com music store still around, or is it long gone? Napster seems to be hemmoraging money as well.

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