Interesting idea. No amount of interesting ideas will kill the iPod (the iPod couldn't kill the iPod today), but it's still an interesting idea.

Quoted: Our CrunchGear rumorists have discovered that when you share a song via Wi-Fi using Zune’s three day/three play system AND the other party purchases the song later in the iZunes Music Store (IZMS), you get a credit that you can later trade in for music and media.

If they keep this up I'm gonna be paying more than $6/month for my Yahoo! music subscription :)

Quoted: It's all nonsense. Music is never going to be protected, and anybody who tells you that is not being honest.

Interviewing the person behind FairUse4WM.

Quoted: Finding a way to extract key information took about a couple of weeks of spare time.

Hopefully the first of many -- great stuff.

Quoted: Some of Canada's best known musicians, including Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlin, Sum 41, and Barenaked Ladies, have formed a new copyright coalition. The artists say in a press release that they oppose file sharing lawsuits, the use of DRM, and DMCA-style legislation and that they want record labels to stop claiming that they represent their views.

I agree with the assessment (I would never pay $1 for the DRM crap Apple is selling on iTunes), but I'm still quite surprised by the fall-off.

Quoted: Now legal downloads may be losing their luster. According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter. Says independent media analyst Richard Greenfield: "We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players." ... Which brings us to a grand irony: Apple, which launched the digital music revolution, may now be holding it back.