I've seen this story floating around the blogosphere: Gates has admitted that DRM sucks. What's the problem? Certainly not the principle behind it--powerful psychopathic corporations using law and tech to prevent public distribution of our cultural byproducts. Rather, it's more a matter of simple inconvenience. Apparently, we need to be able to "buy an artist out for life," which sounds quite intriguing. It does suck to only like, buy their albums when you can actually own the person. I suppose there are also issues when songs can't be transferred from Zune to ipod to vinyl. In the short term, though, you should just "buy a CD and rip it," because that's "legal." (I'm assuming not the CDs with rootkits!)

On a plus side, the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause has been relaxed a bit to allow archiving of software and data on obsolete media. Got any copy-protected games on 5 1/4" disks?