In principle, I am very against the current implementations and ideas for DRM as regards music and its distribution. I don't download music - I buy on CD. If the CD has protection, I either get around it or return it. I want no-one to be able to tell me how I can use something that is my property. I am happy that I'm not going to make a thousand copies to sell - copyright does have its reasons, but if I want to have mp3's on my empeg while I keep the CDs in the attic, that is up to me.

I am glad the empeg never got forced into any DRM issues. Reminds me of how we tried to get Kenwood to build something like this (way back, before I had heard of Hugo's little project) and they were against it because they didn't have a solid enough DRM model. It was only the empeg and similar products, and the huge uptake in mp3s that forced them into the market.