If buying a song/album/sleeve artwork/other goodies is as quick as clicking a button on a web site (and it will be, because all you're doing is enabling/decrypting a product you already have), then I can't see how any sensible artist would object.

Okay, I appologize for that part of the argument. So you were talking about this as instead of downloading songs from the internet. I can see some reason in that idea (although I agree that sooner or later they'd be decrypted). I still think that the artists would rather stand alone. You would also get a bunch of new groups naming themselves things like ABBA or...Aaliyah (quick search on allmusic.com) just to get at the top of the alphabet. Who knows, we might see some groups naming themselves simply "~"

I still stand by my point that no artist would/should/can put more songs on an album than they're able/willing.

(ps-great job on the geek site rob)

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