<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Nelson E. Ingersoll <<a href="mailto:nelson.ingersoll@email.com">nelson.ingersoll@email.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">  DRM is wrong.  Don't<br> support it in any way.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><rant><br>I'm something of an anarchist by nature. I personally hate the download music business in all forms. The Internet is like the old west. It's wild, dangerous and full of opportunity. Anyone trying to limit that opportunity is just a buzz-kill. I have nothing against artist getting paid for what they do but they don't get paid much - the labels are making the money. Artist should take control of their work and distribute MP3s for free and then package high quality audio on feature packed discs (or downloadable iso or something) for sale. Thanks in part to all this MP3 crap DVD-Audio and SACD have more or less died. Maybe Blu-Ray audio in on the horizon but doesn't anyone care about quality anymore? I don't buy CDs anymore. Not because I download everything for free but because they are overpriced, featureless, and usually bad music. I was buying SACDs and DVD-Audio but they have once again lost me as a customer. RIAA needs to wake up and stop peddling crud and realize that is as much a reason for poor sales as downloading. NIN got it right. I hope we see more of that in the near future.</rant><br> <br>-jim<br></div></div>-- <br>Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.<br>See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>