Prince rewards spendy fans with DRM--crippled downloads

Mike McCarthy told his horror story to boing boing about being a Prince fan in the the age of DRM, Mike says "Luckily I only purchased one of many DRM-laden album from Prince's now defunct New Power Generation website, Xpectation. It cam in the DRM- encumbered Windows Media format, but this was before I was ever aware of the horrors of DRM. Ironically, I expected the files to work pretty much forever, maybe not forever but at least a few good years. However, I guess the joke was one me as I misplaced the files on an external hard-drive a year or so ago and recently located them only to find out there's absolutely nothing I can do with them."

This is just another example of the music industry ruining the relationship between the listeners and the music. If this continues anymore I am afraid the listeners and buyers with not be trustworthy of anymore. I wish that a better solution could be devised so that everyone is happy but when money is involved it is hard to change.