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That you hit your cable modem's max speed downloading from Pressplay really isn't that surprising, since in all likelihood they have many times more bandwidth than even a large group of people on Kazaa/WinMX/Gnutella/[insert your favorite P2P service with multipoint downloads here].
Though I've never used the service, I agree that DRM protection is obnoxious. I've run into that with free downloads before. MS's DRM supposedly has some kind of severe flaw in it or something that would allow files to be stripped of it, and I don't think it's one that's easily patched, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a utility out there to un-DRM files. (Note that I'm not talking about unfuck.exe; there was some other flaw in their DRM that was exposed recently on Slashdot.)
And I agree that these services probably won't catch on in a big way until they start offering DRM-free, or at least less heavily-restricted, downloads. Of course, in the long run it won't solve the problem of true, large-scale piracy ... but a lot of that is controlled by organized crime, so I guess not even the RIAA's balls are that big.
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