I definitely have to agree. Does anyone think you can buy a subscription and get all the music in the world without having to pay for it. Granted, you dont get all the music, but if you got to keep the files you would only have to download them all, and then stop the service. It is actually a good deal if you like to listen to music alot, and there are currently a good number of players that support this.

As for pay music, I must say that this is true for Real, iTunes, and anything that uses WMA. If you read further, there is actually one service that sells MP3s, as well as offers MP3 subscriptions, which lets you permanently download a set number of songs per month (its a really good rate).

In all, CDs are really the best way to buy music still, because you do "own" the music, and you can convert it into any format. DRMs on CDs are a whole lot easier to break, because unless they start making CDs that dont work in most players, using a non Microsoft CD ripper should let you rip waves without DRM (If they dont allow this, DVD Jon will write a hack; its not something that is, or should be, illegal to break where he lives. Its fair use in its purest form.