Samildanach Posted:

What’s funny is, in 1998/1999, when Napster was huge lawsuit news and internet music piracy was a sudden, new watchword, I said “Y’know, record companies should just set up a system by which to buy individual tracks cheap… maybe recommend more based on what you buy.”

I should’ve worked on coding it, instead of figuring that it couldn’t be that good an idea, or they’d be working on it.

But the DRM is what kills it, if I buy a song from the Itunes store, I can only [legally] interact with the audio file in Itunes. You would need to manually remove the DRM, and break the law just to play it on a different media player.