Is there some board that issues "CD" licencing? Like Sony or Phillips... I know that there are certain standards for DVD's. All DVD's have to have DolbyDigital (they can have DTS or PCM also, but they need to have at least one mono Dolby Digital track) and they all use (at least now) Macrovision and Mpeg2. You would think that whoever controls the CD standards wouldn't allow this to happen, but politics would come into play anyway...

What is to prevent someone from getting the WMA files, stripping their copy protection (which is pretty easy from what I heard) or converting them to mp3?

I love how everyone (not you guys, I''m refering to record companies) is forgetting that some of us still use dial up connections! If I bought this guys CD (believe me, even with out this new technology, I wouldn't even take it for free, but that is another thread!) I would be seriously pissed that I had to spend up to 25 mintues PER TRACK to download this thing! That eats into my 20hours per month too!

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