Comparing iTunes to diet soda

Mr. Li ire himself, Michael Robertson, posted a little ditty about his love of diet soda. He then compares the short shelf-life of diet soda (A artame, in particular, doe 't last long) to the potentially limited life an of any DRM'ed music. His case is mycokemusic.com, which just went away once the iTunes invaded the UK. But he predictably tur his gaze to iTunes, the juggernaut of online music. The logic goes, DRM limits you, forces restrictio , which could hamper or completely invalidate your music collection someday. Right now, if you purchased a bunch of songs on iTunes and wanted to switch from an iPod to something else (people tell me others do in fact make portable music players), you would have to burn and re-rip your music as a bunch of MP3's. Or re-buy them all. Sounds like fun, huh? About as much fun as me copying the giant boxes of audio ca ettes I have in the garage onto my hard drive, litting up the tracks, labeling them, and storing them indefinitely. Always nice to see technology making life easier for us... The eternal question: DRM good or DRM bad? If Michael had his way, we'd all be rockin' to MP3's sa restrictio . But then, I don't see a lot of music labels knocking on his door...