Not exactly front page news, but Ponzi's had it up to HERE with DRM and portable music players (including the stupid little iPod Shuffle):

Fair cost in my mind doesn't have much to do with dollars and cents; it mainly just has to make sense – in my non-technical mind. It has to be friendly and useful, not take too much time during the learning curve, and must be intuitive to my next desires should I make a mistake. This is where it would pay for all you smart “marketing gurus” to listen.

Yeah, I know that even something as rudimentary as podcasting is a pain in the ass – I admit it. Managing regular ol' digital music ain't that much easier, either. It's absolutely, positively not simple. Anybody who says “this stuff” is simple oughta be drug out into the middle of the street and shot.