Wasted effort Round 2 (Score 2, Insightful)

When are people going to realize that this protection of music isn't going to be successful. Anyone with a full duplex sound card could connect audio in to audio out and record/encode mp3, regardless of any of these technologies they develop to prevent it. Companies are wasting their time and need to come to grips with the situation they have. Record companies have been ripping off their artists and the people buying CDs for a decade, its an inevitable revolution that they got the ball rolling on to begin with. If the product was worth $17, people would pay it continually, when in fact its not. A cd buy a great talent and a cd buy a market created one-hit wonder cost the same. People buy the cd by the great talent if they find it for a good deal and download/delete the one-hit wonders song. I think if the industry had less cookie cutter, less marketing, less bull shit, less bloat in the price and product, they'd have fewer problems with people ripping them off in return.