Read Mircosoft’s web page on DRM – kinda funny to find out you can only change the license 10 times. Meaning, if you switch hardware or PC’s more than 10 times, you gotta buy the MP3 again.. What a waste of a great technology, looks like CD’s might be around longer, as the music industry’s idea of “digital music” is just as illogical as their ideas on anything else. Guess the effects of all that Coke the CEO’s snort is starting to show it’s effect.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx#10_0

Re-reading your “Death of the CD?” observation on Copyfight reminded me of a two-CD set that truly demonstrates the bridge between current hard-copy music sales and the play-list-centric voluntary compulsory license system of the not-so-distant future.

Go-Kart Records’ MP300 is 300 192kbps MP3s on a two CDs for $10. They also offer a number of these songs free for download. The hard-copy is baically a playlist sold at a price so low that it beats spending time searching for the songs on a p2p and putting out the effort it would take to download them one-by-one.

The CD is a low-tech Ultra-wide-band download. It’s nice to see that some people really do ‘get it’