Bill Gates Hates DRM

From TechCrunch"

(Bill) Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM,
which “causes too much pain for legitmate buyers” while trying to
distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He says no one has done it
right, yet. There are “huge problems” with DRM, he
says, and “we need
more flexible models, such as the ability to “buy an artist out for
life” (not sure what he means). He also criticized DRM schemes that try
to install intelligence in each copy so that it is device specific.

His short term advice: “People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then.”

All this from the guy whose company virtually invented DRM and whose new Zune is it’s own closed DRM system…