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I'm not buying any downloads, PERIOD, END OF STORY!!! My money will only go for hard copies. If they try to force downloads, we got a real, big problem.

Here in Holland, we have added a fee on all recording media to pay the industry and the owners of the recorded music or media, how ever is it legal to reproduce this for your personal use here in Holland.

I won't touch DRM. I won't be told how I can use something that I buy and something that belongs to me! It's like being told what roads you can and can not drive your car on.

I don't download music. Why should I when I can buy records at $1.00 a pop?

I don't download.

I only download to audition. I might download if i could get a Red Book quality file from a band that was difficult to locate or out of print, but I'd just as soon get a hard copy. And once I own the CD, I own it

Other consumers may do what they wish. For myself, I have never and will not ever purchase music with DRM restrictions.

DRM only hurts honest users and tempts those same good people into turning to file sharing networks and share those files even further.Anybody doing all their listening off MP3 files should not be too corcerned about sound quality after all.

I don't download music from the internet. If I did I would be severly p-oh'd if something I paid for was copy restricted.

Simply put, if I pay for it I should be able to with it what I wish as long as it is not criminal as defined by the courts.

When do we get back to having a freedom in this country? We are getting more and more restricted in whatever we do. The corporate lawyers serving the music industry have gone too far. I suggest a full out boycott against these rules and regulations. We once could do whatever we wished with music once we purchased it. I don't beleive anyone has gone out of business because I made a cassette tape or burned a CD from my original purchased copy. The music industry needs to focus on the bootleg side of these issues and leave the law abiding citizen that paid full retail alone. What's next volume and playback frequency limitations?

There are no usage restrictions on LPs, tapes or CDs, if you PAY for a downloaded song, you should have the same rights! DRM protected songs won't even play on my computer, they require something like Quicktime or Windows Media Player, neither of which work on the FreeBSD operating system.