That ephemeral music mode is exactly what the RIAA wants, which is why Zune does it. Don't like it? Just buy non-DRMed music. I buy CDs direct from artists and rip the tracks onto my MP3 player. It goes no further. I can't the same for teens and pre-teens having watched many of them casually 'share' their music.
BTW, an interesting statistic about iPod owners appeared in /.. The entry quotes an article in the BBC news which quotes a Jupiter research report that 80+% of the music poured into the iPods is not from music stores. People do not want DRM (who would?) and they are willing to either purchase CDs to rip their music unburdened or rip it from other peoples' CDs.
Nonetheless, casual piracy is a problem. I can't belive how many people ask me to give them a copy of some music I am playing, and how grumpy they get when I give them the CD title and URL containing said music.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:41 am (UTC)BTW, an interesting statistic about iPod owners appeared in /.. The entry quotes an article in the BBC news which quotes a Jupiter research report that 80+% of the music poured into the iPods is not from music stores. People do not want DRM (who would?) and they are willing to either purchase CDs to rip their music unburdened or rip it from other peoples' CDs.
Nonetheless, casual piracy is a problem. I can't belive how many people ask me to give them a copy of some music I am playing, and how grumpy they get when I give them the CD title and URL containing said music.