Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

"I've come up with an invention that is going to scare the music business," the stoner sampled at the beginning of Kid Koala's "Slew Test 2" slurs. "Like, the whole music business is destroyed when this invention hits the street." That invention is DRM, and it's insanely efficient at deathbed conversions. Ask the customers who bought DRM tracks from Wal-Mart: They just got a letter asking them to put life jackets on their laced tunes or lose them forever. They may never go DRM again. Wal-Mart's watered-down legalese spelled it out this way: [...]