One of the biggest debates in today’s music industry is the debate of Digital Rights Management: The practice of putting restrictions onto your music that states what you can and can’t do with a song. If you’ve bought a song from the iTunes Store or subscribe to a music service, you’ve most likely bought a song with DRM on it. While Apple has introduced iTunes Plus: Songs without DRM and at a higher quality bitrate (256k vs. 128k), it hasn’t reached all of their songs and shows no sign of reaching all the songs any time soon.

I am generally Anti-DRM, but am a fan of an all-in-one solution, which iTunes is. Amazon offers an MP3 library full of non-DRM MP3 songs and Rhapsody now has a DRM-free store, but neither are one-click with the iPod. I would love to see every piece of content go DRM-free, but it just won’t happen with the current setup the RIAA and the MPAA are setup in.

So, are you pro-DRM or anti-DRM? Sound off in the comments below.

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