File this in the "Gee whiz, what a surprise" department:

From this article which everyone should go read now (bits and parts below):

Justice Dept.: FBI misused Patriot Act

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago

As a general rule I rip all cd's into the FLAC format for archiving. However, that takes up too much space on my computer's disk when my collection grows (I currently have 12,000+ tracks I've ripped from my cd's) so I store those on an external hard drive and re-encode them into a more compact format for usage on my machine. For now I've been using the OGG format but my question is with the sheer number of portable music players that play mp3 and the popularity of the iPod should I be using a