Penny jukebox in the UK. This seems much cheaper than one would expect--you can listen to a song 99 times before you would have been better off 'purchasing' it.
Mr Grimsdale said: "My guess is that there will be gateways between the two DRM systems in the not too distant future. This is, to my knowledge, the first time anyone in the industry as addressed the issue of the permanence of purchases, other than in spiteful rhetoric towards those who provide tools to un-DRM files. Fundamentally, the problem is that the industry wants to possess and consume the same proverbial cake. DVDs and CDs are physical media, and there is no copying allowed, because the end user is not buying the media, he/she is buying the content. At the same time, moving content between devices is frowned upon, particularly in the early days of MP3, and if your physical media is damaged, they will not provide a replacement, so the end user doesn't really own the content either.

While the previous article claims gateways between different DRM specs will avoid a Betamax-VHS scenario, Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD seems to be the format war of the future.

DirecTV agrees to not abuse DMCA quite as much. Score one for the EFF.

--Ari