The truly funny part about being one of the few people still using a old MD player? Most of the younger ones raised on standard flashplayers and ipods see you whip out your traveling discs, open the player, load up and say 'that is so cool!'. One of the things they find most interesting is that each disc is actually its own playlist! Amazing!

One thing that really lights up some eyes is when they find out that the line in is digital. "Is that legal?" "Hmmmm, not as much as it used to be. A lot of places you can be arrested for using it." "COOL!" (Kids...)

But that also shows a point about the generation coming up. Not only do they know how to get around DRM (which in many cases is no more than dressing anyway) but find it generally so foolish that it isn't even worth time to worry about what it was put in for. The end product is simply "there" and if they can't get it easily through a legit source, they'll get it easier (and cheaper) through some other channel.

File sharing koan: If you copy something that doesn't exist because it is unavailable, did you really copy anything?