Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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AAC is the audio portion of MPEG 4, just as MP3 is the audio layer of an MPEG 1. It's not and Apple thing.
The songs can actually be burned to a disc and reimported without the DRM.
You can actually check out music cd's from public libraries, although the selection is very limited.