We all know file sharing is quite popular as evidenced by Morpheus, KaZaA, etc...
"File-sharing continues unabated, and high-tech solid-state music players are one of the audio industry's hottest trends so hot that computer companies like Apple have eagerly joined the fray with devices like the iPod, a player no bigger than a cellular telephone, but capable of storing a thousand songs. If the experience of the past two years has proven anything, it's that the music-loving public has a seemingly unquenchable thirst for music to go."
But what if you were told that MusicNet and Pressplay for $10/month will allow download in the WMA format(Copy Protected) rather then mp3 and can only be d/l to your computer and after a certain time it destructs.
"MusicNet and pressplay won't make their music available in the popular format. Instead of the by-default MP3 standard, the commercial download sites will format their tunes as Windows Media files, chosen for its compatibility with DRM ("digital rights management," or copy-prevention) technology, and its ability to carry a self-termination code that will make downloaded songs expire after the rental period."
Some say
"It's not clear how this offers any benefit to music fans, who with little effort can find the music they want for free on the Internet through the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing services, many of them originating outside the US and therefore beyond the reach of American copyright law."
My guess is this won't go very far and the problem with WMA(DRM) has already been solved.
Source: Stereophile
