Napster DRM broken

Not too surprisingly DRM continues to not work well. The boingboing link mentioned in the article is here. I saw it the other day and didn't really give it a second thought (Napster doesn't have any music I want to buy at the moment). Besides...

Copy protection has never worked and is not likely to ever, just based simply on technology facts. Sure they can legistlate and require all sorts of silly hardware and software to get in your way, but where there's a will there's a way. The piraters will always pirate. In the meantime the rest of us are expected to pay more for something we can do less with.

I just want a system that allows me to get music (preferably not one time only on volatile or DRM encumbered / expiring media) and listen to it wherever I am. I used to get that when buying a CD or vinyl recording (and possibly copying it onto some other more portable media like tape or flash memory for running around with), although loosing my "master" "copy" was a bummer (where is my Gorilla's CD). But I guess I'm just a bad consumer for thinking the industry could be using technology to better enable me to consume in that model instead of putting hurdles between buying and listening.

But the media and RIAA presumably will spin this as "3vil h4ckerz" depriving Honest Artists of a living.