The real problem is the music industry, it failed to capitalise on the opportunity to establish itself on the www after the napster affair. and since, has been more concerned with blaming ppl for DL mp3’s rather than reflecting on their contempt for music and the ppl who listen to it.

Since the 80’s they have invested far too little in new bands, preferring to invest “safely” in the likes of Madonna or other big marketable bands. Although i hear Madonna has recently been learning to play the guitar – as the saying goes, better late than never!

During the 90’s we had to put up with the onslaught of the singles market which meant that every track on the album was released multiple times, filled out with mediocre B sides to milk it even further.

Recently, there was a good article interviewing Manu Chao on the “courrierinternational” website. He stated his latest CD would be the last he would release, not because he didnt want to release more music, but because he thought the format was dead and deprived the creator of much of his/her financial income.

DRM is bad, but so are record companies and publishers who enforce it. they had the opportunity to take Napster and share “the pie”, but they ended up bickering among themselves.

I would imagine the main reason Amazon only have a limited selection of tracks is because only a small minority of music publishers are willing to let their music go DRM free!

Now where did i put that DRM removal software…

Who is to say that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, won’t decide that you can’t burn their Fairplay protected files to CD any more? After all, they have already reduced the number of times you can burn a particular playlist once, so they have form.

I like it! Good on your for still daring to criticise Apple! I wonder: has Daniel Eran Dilger read this?

Sadly the choice of tracks is fairly measly, but with any luck this will increase in the next few months.