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This short article picked up by eLearningPost doesn't say a lot, but it makes one good point: "If artists want to license their works so strictly that I'm not allowed to copy it from a CD I purchase onto my MP3 player, then let them distribute it that way. And if enough of us decide not to buy those CDs, the market will force an attitude adjustment among record labels and artists. That's the way the market is supposed to work. But it won't have a chance to work if we let Congress screw up the Internet so there is one and only one way to sell to us." Now as the link above suggests, it's not just the U.S. Congress. We need to ensure that all of the products we buy and use support multiple models.

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