I just read a blog post at http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/14/bill-gates-on-the-future-of-drm/ where the author said he was in a meeting at Redmond to talk about Mix 07 and got to ask questions of Bill Gates. His question was on DRM and he got a candid response that DRM in its current state is broken. I have said before that I support the rights of artists to make money but I shouldn’t have to have a special device or any code to play music that I have purchased legally. As I read through the comments there were a lot of people supporting the same view (and of course the RIAA is evil view is in there as well). I don’t know what the solution is but I do know that I have pretty much stopped buying music over the last few years. There are so many pod casts and other sources of information that I am satisfied with the music that I currently have when I want entertainment and have something useful to fill up all the other long hours in the car.