Where I predict that DRM is going

DRM is digital rights management. Ripping from cd on your personal computer has no DRM. I call the RIAA the roiaa, b/c roi is an abbreviation for return on investment. If the roiaa has their way about it, people will not own the rights to music they purchase. people will simply be purchasing the privilege of listening to it at the discretion of the roiaa. They contend they CANNOT MAKE MONEY in this hostile, anti-competitive environment. The exact solution that no one wants to allow - the only solution i know of is public key encryption of music, such that each device has it's own private key. My car mp3 player would be different from my pc, my portable iPod mp3 player, my CD player, my PC. This is bad, because if my device dies, I have to purchase the the tune all over again. If I have a private key that plays on all my devices, and a sort of non-eprom prom is used to flash it, that might be a solution here. I am still working on this one. Its an expletive deleted draconian solution, and the only one they want. Fair use has no meaning to the roiaa. the place to hit the roiaa politically is: how much do they pay an artist, a screenwriter, the musician. The roiaa exists for the recording studios such that even the artists themselves do not have the rights to their own material. As long as the sound comes out a headphone jack, the sound can be pirated. The next orwellian step would be to make recording devices subject to inconvenient licensing practices. That's the opposite of freedom.