And DRM isn't free either. So, you're basically paying extra to prevent digital copying which, if one person breaks and throws a copy of the track on Soulseek, it won't take long before the scenario you were trying to avoid occurs anyways. It's also not like there's a truly scientific means within our grasp to find out exactly how many people didn't pirate a track, and bought it instead, because of the DRM protection. I think the Truelove website has the right idea and I hope it is proving beneficial for the artists/labels involved. Digital piracy, for the people who will actually perform the tracks, I'm willing to bet is more of a convenience thing. It's not like 100% of the people who download songs are doing so simply because they have a fundamental opposition to buying music. Not that you won't have such people. But, if the records are being sold anyways, and enough people are buying the mp3s at $1 who used to download them through a P2P network, it seems like a good thing. It may have motivated
some people to take some files out of their shares as well. I know I took down a lot of out of print music I was sharing on soulseek once I saw some webpages for the labels were planning on re-issuing the tracks for sale as a direct MP3 download. I don't even have an Acid directory in my share anymore because of that.