This probably won’t interest anyone except Graham, but in preparation for D-Day (where D stands for ipoD; I’m finally getting one after 2–3 years of faffing around with flash-based mp3 players, not just for the capacity but for the navigation interface) I’ve been ripping my CD collection of various favourite artists, and in the process have discovered that one by A Certain Musician is copy-controlled—or at least is behaving the same as another that I know is. Which is par for the course for anything released during 2003—but this CD was released in May 1999. Napster hadn’t even appeared, mp3s were still a novelty, and already they were experimenting with making everything cactus for future listeners, or so it seems. No, WEA, I am not re-purchasing one of Mike Oldfield’s crappiest albums in DRM downloadable form seven years after first buying it, so what good did that do either of us?
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