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IRMA (those lovely people who tried to shut down cheap music outlets like CDWOW) announced today that they are to prosecute 17 of Ireland’s most prolific illegal music sharers. You can read the full story about this here (ENN).
There’s a mention in that article about how lower prices on legal music download sites would help to curb the spread of illegal music sharing, but they left out one critical factor: Many people do not like using these services because of the DRM (digital rights management) crippled files they produce. Mycokemusic.com is one site mentioned in the article - Music downloaded from Mycokemusic comes in DRM-ridden WMA format.
I legally downloaded a Paddy Casey track from that site a few weeks ago, only to find that I could not transcode it to MP3 or AAC to play on my iPod (which does not support WMA) because of the poxy WMA DRM. To play it I had to go by the nasty analogue route, which really reduces audio quality.