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DigitalZen,
Was it DRM that stopped them? Or was it a serious crackdown by the recording industry where they forced Colleges and ISPs to turn over information on individual users? DRM never effectively stopped people from ripping CDs; so once ripped, they could have been placed on file sharing networks. It was the crackdown on the networks and the downloaders that finally forced people to start actually paying for the their music. If anything, the music industry seems to be slowly moving away from a DRM based model. Amazon (Which Ironically has the most restrictive DRM model for books) sells DRM free mp3's, and even iTunes are now selling some.
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Bill
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