I love having thousands of songs on my computer, where I can flick between albums, artists and tracks within seconds,
or quickly change the playlist on my ipod or burn off a cd for the car. DRM, or digital rights management is often applied to music which you download from an online store or service. Why does this matter to you? Because you’ve paid for digital copy of a song or album and there are restrictions on what you can do with it. For example, you might not be able to burn it to a cd. You might not be able to transfer it to another computer you own, or if you get a new computer.
There is a strong movement for cheap DRM-free music. There are serveral such services avaliable, and Amazon a large and powerufl addition to the DRM-free movement. They have just launched a public beta called Amazon MP3 with over two million songs for download for either 89c or 99c US, or albums from $5.99 to $9.99 US. The quality of the mp3s isn’t too shabby either at 256Kbps, more than enough for most peoples requirements. Because these tracks are all DRM-free you are able to do whatever you want with them (within the boundaries of copywrite law, of course).
On another unrelated note I saw Clockwork Orange last night. That movie is messed up.
