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Re: Illegal...

It is not illegal to burn a CD that you own for use, for example, in your car. Nor is it illegal to copy a CD that you own on to your hard drive.

However, copying someone else's CD or buying a CD, copying it (on to whatever media), and then selling the "used" CD to someone else is illegal.

Ultimately, all of this is kind of self-defeating. If the typical CD is copied, say, three times by three different people, then the sale price of the CD will begin to reflect that expectation.

I don't think the experience of software and DRM is necessarily a model of what should happen with music. A lot of software has a much shorter useful life than a CD . . . until release 2.0 comes along.

I think DRM for digital music is going to happen, sooner or later; and, personally, I think it should if it can be implemented without degrading the audio signal. Otherwise, the price of digital music is going to reflect the seller's expectations that it will be used by multiple users.

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