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Agreed. One of capitalism's true warts. I read a legal analysis that showed humorous yet striking similarities between the DMCA and The Spanish Inquisition. Will try to dig it up.
Figured you'd bumped into mp3 rights stuff. Just wanted to close the loop.
That most people don't remember using mp3 DRM shows how little licensees wanted to be tied to that foundation, by name or otherwise. It provided none of mp3's ubiquity but came with all the limitations and costs. Why help market a bad (and one day competing) technology longer than absolutely necessary?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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