Philips now says that people who make those stupid copy-protected CDs shouldn’t be able to use the “Compact Disc” logo, since they aren’t really CDs at all. This is encouraging – if people know beforehand that a CD is copy-protected, hopefully they won’t buy it.
The whole Napster thing sort of amazed me, because I believe people would be willing to pay a small amount for each song they downloaded legally, so the record companies and more importantly the artists could be compensated for their work. There are new pay services starting up, like RealOne and pressplay, but to me they seem needlessly complex, with special software and lots of limits. Just allow me to pay $1 or whatever for a downloaded file and be done with it.