Quote Originally Posted by Antinoise
Whatever... keep swinning upstream with your eyes closed.....
LOL. you sound like a televangelist.

a) you don't want to give M$ that much control over your work. trust me. they have a very backward way of thinking about your privacy; i.e. if it suits them, great. otherwise, pfffft.
b) DO NOT rely on them to maintain a consistent format/implementation. a complete library of WMA files has a much higher likelihood of someday being a completely useless library.
c) anything is crackable. ANYTHING. before all this, records could be (re)recorded, CDs could be copied en masse. there's no such thing as secure in this respect. it's just that, like general information & the internet, digital media has made the already very shareable music out there easier to share. it's not like piracy was born yesterday. hello? china?
d) personally i've never encountered a WMA format (including 10) that didn't sound like crap and wasn't a total hassle to deal with.
e) anything from M$ that is supposedly that secure almost positively has the application "phone home" dealio -- M$ is monitoring you and you can be sure it's not just your DRM usage. you've just invited Big Brother in for tea.

all that said, if it works for you, cool. go for it.

but don't try to tell me the earth has just changed rotation because Microsuck has just released yet another self-serving product. doesn't it strike you as odd that they are on version TEN of this format and pretty much the whole world still thinks it's a joke?