I agree. I'm with you on that. While I'm not a big "anti-MS" guy, I hate the digital restrictions they built into the format. A few years back, WaxTrax! records released many wma's free on their site. I spent most of the day downloading them at work. I owned nearly all of the cd's but didn't have any ripping program at the time (2000). After I was done, I went home for 2 weeks (I was able to spend all day DL'ing because it was the last day before Christmas vacation). When I came back after New Year's, they had all expired. Nice.