Yahoo! News – iTunes user sues Apple over FairPlay DRM:
Thomas William Slattery has filed a class action suit against Apple Computer Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Apple is guilt of violating federal antitrust laws and California’s unfair competition law by requiring users who buy music from the iTunes Music Store to use an iPod if they plan to take their music on the road with them. Slattery’s suit cuts to the heart of an ongoing issue related to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology present in commercial downloaded music.
I just realized the other night that I had 250+ paid-for tracks in my library, and over the same period of time, I have bought 2-3 CDs. As I’ve said before, I’m a bit wobbly on DRM as it works in iTunes: it’s sufficiently loose as to be manageable and I worry that if for whatever reason it got more stringent, it would make things worse (I realize that for some, the mere existence of DRM is as bad as it gets).
Then you have this from the chairman of the most derivative company in the tech sector: 
Boing Boing: Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies:
There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. [image credit]
Lawrence Lessig says it best:
It’s one thing to read this sort of thing from a studio exec, or head of a record label — surrounded as they are by the sort that surround them. But the people I’ve met at Microsoft are miles beyond this sort of silliness. Does Mr. Gates not even talk to them?
I hear over and over again that there are lots of smart people at MSFT: why do they stay? Are they that wedded to their options and the perks of working at the big house? I realize there are a lot of cool R&D things going on there that no one else has the resources to fund, but that’s not the case with all of them. I wish I could remember where I saw it, but there was some guy there who was blogging his progress toward his first million.